    
[Verse 1]
Shadowed minutes stretching, spun in glass
Crimson numbers blinking as they pass
He tiptoes through a silver dream
Threading halls the clocks redeem

Balancing strange ideas on his tongue
Sock-footed wanderer, quietly unsprung
He watches embers curl inside the grate
Cradling the hour’s uncertain fate

[Chorus]
I'm awake, in the blue between
All the hours no one really sees
Footsteps flicker in the hall unseen
Alive and drifting, unbroken, free

[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, I'm living twice
Ooh, the watchful night

[Verse 2]
Tick the clock when the city turns
Half a dream and the kettle burns
He paces slow in slippered feet
Quiet thoughts where day and twilight meet

[Pre-Chorus]
Small moments lit in the silence
He rearranges, drunken by patience
Stories in every sleeping home
He walks the watch, awake, alone

[Chorus]
I'm awake, in the blue between
All the hours no one really sees
Footsteps flicker in the hall unseen
Alive and drifting, unbroken, free

[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, I'm living twice
Ooh, the watchful night

[Bridge]
Lamp glow breathes on lonely fingernails
He sketches worlds on windowpanes
Lost inventions, soft equations swirl
Mapping dreams that never need a name

[Verse 3]
Books half open on his favorite chair
Pages turning, midnight’s little prayer
Strange connections written in his head
Walk the pattern no sleeper ever treads

[Pre-Chorus]
Night collects the thoughts he rescues
Threads of day unwind, become new
Blessed keeper in the silent sweep
He writes his secrets while the world’s asleep

[Chorus]
I'm awake, in the blue between
All the hours no one really sees
Footsteps flicker in the hall unseen
Alive and drifting, unbroken, free

[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, I'm living twice
Ooh, the watchful night

[Outro]
Silent sentry in borrowed time
Shadow puppets playing on the blinds
He traces lines that linger on his wrist
Counting stories that no one will have missed

Visions flicker past the kitchen door
Fragments gathered, scattered on the floor
Restless watcher keeping dreams alive
Catches echoes of the soon-to-rise

Ooh, the silent night
Ooh, the watch goes

[Outro Reprise]
Cracked horizons through curtain seams
Spins a coin through pocketed dreams
Chalk-drawn maps on tabletops worn
He’s charting routes for dawn’s return

Whispered riddles ride the window’s sting
Circle time in a clicking ring
Half-remembered faces drift and swarm
Between two nights, his fable’s born

Ooh, divisions blur
Ooh, while others stir

Paper towers and tin machine kings
He finds his kingdom in ordinary things
A silent vow as the morning leaks in
He’ll slip to sleep, ready to begin

Ooh, the velvet blue
Ooh, he watches through
