You pace the yellow line alone
Trench coat heavy on your bones
Radio silent in your hand
Third shift city understands
Three AM keeps honest watch
No sirens scream no dispatch
Just you and tracks and fluorescent glow
Guarding what the night won't show
I've served you eggs at four past two
Black coffee in a chipped mug too
You tip the same two quarters down
Best detective in this town
Your shoes are scuffed from concrete days
Case files stacking cardboard ways
A missing kid a cold trail gone
You wait for dawn to carry on
Three AM keeps honest watch
No sirens scream no dispatch
Just you and tracks and fluorescent glow
Guarding what the night won't show
Train arrives with hydraulic sigh
Doors exhale no passenger inside
You nod at nothing check your phone
City sleeps but you're not alone
Morning shift will take your post
Relief arrives like holy ghost
Badge tucked deep beneath the wool
Another night another rule
Three AM keeps honest watch
No sirens scream no dispatch
Just you and tracks and fluorescent glow
Guarding what the night won't show
Coffee's cold but case is hot
Platform knows what you forgot
