Track Insight / Lyrics
Folded small, I ride alone
Counting stations, crossing home
Through tunnels dressed in sleeping coats
The rails pull me like rolling roads
I watched the city through my crease
A silver skyline, soft release
The porter pocketed rattling keys
And vanished down the aisle of creaks
Catch me where the midnight goes
Down the track the signal flows
Never built for walls to hold
Always meant for open roads
A schoolgirl jumped and missed her train
One buttery thumbprint left a stain
Her laughter chimed across the glass
Her hurried footsteps kicked up dust
Catch me where the midnight goes
Down the track the signal flows
Never built for walls to hold
Always meant for open roads
A midnight rider shared my seat
His coffee tasted diesel sweet
He dozed beneath the flickering light
His snoring tapped a silver beat
A cook in grease and midnight blue
Polished silver like the morning dew
Set me, coffee-cool, beside the salt
His broad receipt flopped open flat
Catch me where the midnight goes
Down the track the signal flows
Never built for walls to hold
Always meant for open roads
The tunnel breathes in echoing bells
My tiny shadow stretches, swells
I hear the city turning wheels
A thousand heartbeats underneath
I let one corner catch the light
I lift my wings into the night
The station clock refused to move
One paper wing caught oven heat
A cook had left a stainless spoon
And whiskey signs around the seat
Catch me where the midnight goes
Down the track the signal flows
Never built for walls to hold
Always meant for open roads
Carry me where thunder grows
Let every silver echo roll
I was never made to stay
I was always born to go
The last sleeper bends beyond the town
My shadow leaves a feather crown
Then wheels erase my only sound
And I become a wish unwound
