[Verse 1]
You step from the tram at the edge of the bay
Where the towers trade weather in blue bands of rain
A courier wheels past with a map on her sleeve
And the harbor cranes blink as the night starts to breathe

[Pre-Chorus]
Your name turns up on a glass directory
A small green square in a vast machinery
You look up; the upper floors disappear
I take your hand; the street feels near

[Chorus]
This is the city we made for tomorrow
Bright in the windows, alive in the wires
We carry our hopes through the avenues’ currents
And teach every engine to answer desire
Stay by my side while the new day is forming
We’ll find our way through the gardens above

[Verse 2]
An old bookshop survives under platform nine
With paper moons folded in the window display
You choose one for me, though the pages are blank
We write in the margins as the lift climbs away

[Pre-Chorus]
Your name turns up on a glass directory
A small green square in a vast machinery
You look up; the upper floors disappear
I take your hand; the street feels near

[Chorus]
This is the city we made for tomorrow
Bright in the windows, alive in the wires
We carry our hopes through the avenues’ currents
And teach every engine to answer desire
Stay by my side while the new day is forming
We’ll find our way through the gardens above

[Bridge]
If every door asks for a number
If every road knows where we’ve been
We’ll leave one page without a signature
And let the unplanned morning in

[Final Chorus]
This is the city we made for tomorrow
Bright in the windows, alive in the wires
We carry our hopes through the avenues’ currents
And teach every engine to answer desire
Stay by my side while the new day is forming
We’ll find our way through the gardens above

[Outro]
The first train runs beneath the trees
Your blank page opens in the breeze