[Intro — Soft Piano, Harbour Ambience] [Verse 1] Blue light trembling on the avenue One more hour before the night is through I speak to strangers sailing out of range Naming distant stars that never change Then your voice arrives across the line Soft as something lost outside of time “Play the old song no one plays today” Before I ask your name, you fade away [Pre-Chorus] Every night at twelve minus one You call before the final song is done I watch the harbour disappear And wait for you to say— [Chorus] “The harbour looks beautiful from here All the distant lights are drawing near If I could cross the water one more time Would you meet me on the other side?” The harbour looks beautiful tonight Blue reflections drifting out of sight I hold your voice against my lonely ear While you tell me It is beautiful from here [Verse 2] You describe an island called Aonami Quiet streets beneath a silver sea A little house above the harbour wall Where we could live and never age at all I asked the old man at the terminal “When does the last ferry leave tonight?” He turned away and quietly replied, “That ship went down in nineteen seventy-six.” [Instrumental — Expressive Piano and Analog Synth] [Pre-Chorus] Still, at twelve minus one Your signal found me when the day was done You said, “Come before the final bell— There’s something I must show you.” [Chorus] “The harbour looks beautiful from here All the distant lights are drawing near If I could cross the water one more time Would you meet me on the other side?” The harbour looks beautiful tonight Blue reflections drifting out of sight I hold your voice against my lonely ear While you tell me It is beautiful from here [Bridge — Drums Fall Away] At the end of the empty pier Your ferry waited, pale and still And there you stood, forever young Beneath the midnight signal You reached for me The clock began to turn One step to leave One life to lose Sayonara wa ienai I cannot say goodbye So I placed our song between us And let the ocean decide [Electric Guitar Solo — Tasteful, Melodic, Bittersweet] [Final Chorus] The harbour looked beautiful from there Like another life we almost shared But I could not cross the water out of time Or disappear into your midnight The harbour looks beautiful tonight Your ferry is dissolving into light I hold your voice against my lonely ear As you tell me “It is beautiful from here” [Outro — Close-Mic Vocal, Piano Only] Now every night at twelve minus one I play the song we never quite begun And somewhere underneath the fading air You whisper— “The harbour looks beautiful From here.”
