**[Verse 1]** Under the city lights, we flow like a river Everyone is losing their way back home But I have stepped outside that current Sheltering from the pouring rain In a friend's room high on the rooftop **[Refrain]** Cars are drowning, so many of them Empty shells of steel with no one inside The trains have stopped, the taxis are packed I probably won't make it home tonight The streets have turned into a sea **[Verse 2]** The convenience store stays open all night Sandbags stacked against the rising water Water pushing through the gaps between them Customers standing knee-deep in the flood Someone drinks coffee on the stairs While water rushes through the subway "There's more of this every year," An old man quietly says **[Refrain]** I'm at my friend's place, watching outside Watching this city drown beneath the rain Where does the nameless bird breathe tonight? Swaying like a weather vane Sheltering from the storm Here beneath the shadow of this building **[Bridge]** But I know that after a little while The rain on the rooftop will grow quiet And the flooded city Will slowly rise again **[Final Refrain – Variation]** The trains begin to move again The taxis slowly pull away The nameless bird spreads its wings and flies Swaying like a weather vane Then rising into the sky And tomorrow, little by little The city will find its way back to ordinary life
