Cairo Midnight v1

Instrumental Intro

(Loud qanun riff with darbuka percussion)

Verse 1

Taxi horns and neon glow

Somewhere between Tahrir and Zamalek streets

I trace the steps we used to know

Your laugh still echoes where the Nile breeze meets

Three AM and every light

Burns like the words we didn't say that night

I'm chasing ghosts dressed in white

On a rooftop humming songs we'd play on repeat

Pre-Chorus

Every minaret silhouette

Pulls me back to where we met

The city breathes and I can't forget

That you're not here but you're not gone yet

Chorus

Cairo midnight, you're still dancing in my veins

Every streetlamp throws your shadow through the haze

Heart still pounding like the beat of a thousand drums

Where you end and where I start — I don't know where it comes from

Cairo midnight, got me spinning like a carousel

Living half in memory, half in this hotel

Loving you was sunrise, losing you was hell

But midnight in this city — I still feel you just as well

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh-oh) Feel you just as well

(Oh-oh-oh) Still feel you just as well

(Oh-oh-oh) Midnight

Verse 2

I pass the cafés where we talked

Sipping sweet tea watching chaos turn to art

You said love's a balancing walk

Between a burning heart and a guarded heart

Now I'm dancing through the crowd

With someone new who's got your same careless smile

But when the bass gets deep and loud

I close my eyes and I'm with you for a while

Pre-Chorus

Every crowded bridge I cross

Whispers everything we lost

The city glows at any cost

But you're the ember that can't be tossed

Chorus

Cairo midnight, you're still dancing in my veins

Every streetlamp throws your shadow through the haze

Heart still pounding like the beat of a thousand drums

Where you end and where I start — I don't know where it comes from

Cairo midnight, got me spinning like a carousel

Living half in memory, half in this hotel

Loving you was sunrise, losing you was hell

But midnight in this city — I still feel you just as well

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh-oh) Feel you just as well

(Oh-oh-oh) Still feel you just as well

Instrumental Break

(Qanun solo improv over house groove with electronic drums)

Bridge

Minarets and disco lights

Ancient stone and modern nights

Every corner holds your name

Nothing here has been the same

Since you walked away

Since you walked away

Chorus

Cairo midnight, you're still dancing in my veins

Every streetlamp throws your shadow through the haze

Heart still pounding like the beat of a thousand drums

Where you end and where I start — I don't know where it comes from

Cairo midnight, got me spinning like a carousel

Living half in memory, half in this hotel

Loving you was sunrise, losing you was hell

But midnight in this city — I still feel you just as well

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh-oh) Feel you just as well

(Oh-oh-oh) Still feel you just as well

(Oh-oh-oh) Midnight