Track Insight / Lyrics
Last train's groaning in a tunnel of rust
I count the ticket stubs among crumbs and dust
Nylon strings tremble like a half-remembered hymn
My left hand reaches where the chapel begins
One more coin glows on the pavement for us
Down the stairwell, packing my last song
Streetlight shivers when the whole platform's gone
Old scarf hanging from a case painted blue
Hear the bass note walk beneath the train too
Every echo sounds like something I knew
Turnstile spits me to the rain on Eighth
A bus hisses low while midnight holds its breath
My case swings gently where the gutterlights trim
And every stranger turns and nods as I begin
One more red echo bends the puddled black to rust
Downtown footsteps tattoo the sidewalk's skin
A cop radio coughs a code I can't define
The glockenspiel of sirens fades behind
Windows borrow every sparrow of light
Morning crawls white down the lane where headlights begin
Down the stairwell, packing my last song
Streetlight shivers when the whole platform's gone
Old scarf hanging from a case painted blue
Hear the bass note walk beneath the train too
Every echo sounds like something I knew
The amplifier clicks out one prayer in the dark
Static coughs bright from a rusted fuse's spark
A broken chord slips through the station's last hall
The signal lamp forgets the train by the wall
Then I shoulder up the pack
A taxi idles, seven wet pennies inside
The driver's watching as I tighten the strap
A soda can rolls where the old newspapers spread
The tunnel throws both silhouettes ahead
Then the night folds up the gear that I had
Down the stairwell, packing my last song
Streetlight shivers when the whole platform's gone
Old scarf hanging from a case painted blue
Hear the bass note walk beneath the train too
Every echo sounds like something I knew
I close the case and the city goes still
One guitar note hums where the platform was filled
The stairwell swallows every last trace and hue
I carry one repeat home, and it knows you
