I once threw beams across the bay
Guided ships through spray and gray
Now I sit on wooden shelf
Holding light all by myself
Tabby paws on cold platform stone
Night wraps round her fur and bone
Lantern glows with steady light
Guiding through the longest night
Keeper reads in afternoon
Cat slips out to chase the moon
Down the stairs to tiled floor
Where the trains don't run no more
Tabby paws on cold platform stone
Night wraps round her fur and bone
Lantern glows with steady light
Guiding through the longest night
Third rail hums a low deep song
Vibrates where the lantern belongs
Cat curls up on heated vent
Warmth rises where the steam is sent
Tabby paws on cold platform stone
Night wraps round her fur and bone
Lantern glows with steady light
Guiding through the longest night
Morning comes with pale gray dawn
Commuters wake and stretch and yawn
Keeper finds his wandering cat
Warms her in his wool coat flap
Glass remembers every storm
Every ship kept safe from harm
Now this small and beating heart
Is the only chart I know
Light bends round a different dark
Love's the only loyal spark
Back upon the shelf I rest
Salt and dust upon my chest
Cat sleeps deep in keeper's lap
Dreaming of the platform map
Tabby paws on cold platform stone
Night wraps round her fur and bone
Lantern glows with steady light
Guiding through the longest night
Steady light through longest night
Salt air lingers in the wood
One light burns where it stood