[RAILS — DISTANT RHYTHM] [UPRIGHT MATCHES THE RUMBLE] [BANJO HOOK] [FIDDLE ANSWERS] [HOUSE PULSE] [VERSE 1] I buried every memory Underneath the avenue, Took another line downtown, Told myself that we were through. Thought the miles would make it easy, Thought the silence made it true, Funny how a little time Can change the shape of what you knew. You didn't come back running, Didn't wait beside the track, One small message— Then you disappeared Back into your map. No second call. No chasing. No reason to defend. Now I'm somewhere I swore I'd never stand again. [PRE-CHORUS] Maybe I was right then. Maybe I'm different now. Maybe some old stations Look different Coming back around. [CHORUS] I'M STANDING ON THE PLATFORM AGAIN! Not getting on— Just watching. Not running back— Just watching. I can hear those wheels Coming 'round the bend. And I'm standing On the platform again! I don't call it love. I don't call it the end. Don't know where it goes— Don't need to pretend. I ain't chasing that train— But here I am... Standing On the platform again. [POST-CHORUS] Last train through— I hear it coming. Last train through— Whole ground humming. Last train through— Don't know where it ends. I'm not getting on— I'm just watching That train again. [FIDDLE / LES PAUL] [VERSE 2] You look like somebody different, Somehow more like who you are. Like you quit riding in circles Just to prove you'd traveled far. And you're moving without me. That's the part I didn't plan. You're not waving from the window. You're not asking Where I am. Maybe that's what shook me. Maybe that's what changed. You're not the man I walked away from. I'm not quite The woman who left that day. So I don't ask, "Could we go backward?" There ain't nothing Back there for me. I ask— If our tracks crossed Right now... Who would I see? [CHORUS] I'M STANDING ON THE PLATFORM AGAIN! Not getting on— Just watching. Not reaching out— Just watching. I can hear those wheels Coming 'round the bend. And I'm standing On the platform again! No promises. No pretending. No making a beginning From an ending. I ain't chasing that train— But here I am... Standing On the platform again. [POST-CHORUS] Last train through— I hear it coming. Last train through— Whole ground humming. Last train through— There goes certainty again. I'm not getting on— I'm just watching That train again. [VERSE 3 — BASS HEAVIER] Maybe I called it freedom When what I needed was space. Maybe I called it finished 'Cause finished felt safe. Distance never asked me What I wanted underneath. Never made me choose Between the life I know And something I can't see. And missing you Ain't a ticket. Feeling ain't a destination. Stars above this city Don't decide Which fucking station. I can know the route. I can hear the rails. I can watch the headlights Cut the dark— And still decide Which way I travel. [BUILD] 'Cause you didn't chase me. You didn't follow. You didn't stop the train And ask me for tomorrow. You kept moving. So did I. But somewhere underneath this city— Something stayed alive. [BRIDGE — FULLY SUNG] The station's still here! The tracks still run! I know every turn Though I thought I was done! I hear that sound— Feel it under my shoes! And I just realized... I KNOW THE ROUTE. [TRAIN APPROACHES — DRUMS BUILD] That's new. That's new. Goddamn— That's new. [EVERYTHING CUTS AS TRAIN “ARRIVES”] [ONE FIDDLE NOTE] [FINAL CHORUS — FULL BAND] I'M STANDING ON THE PLATFORM AGAIN! Closer now— Still watching! Doors roll wide— Still watching! I don't know What waits around the bend! But I'm standing On the platform again! Maybe nothing's there! Maybe everything changed! Maybe love ain't Getting back aboard The same old train! Maybe two separate lines Can cross somewhere ahead— Not because they had to... Just because That's where they went! I won't promise tomorrow! Won't rewrite where we've been! But I'm standing— STANDING— ON THE PLATFORM AGAIN! [POST-CHORUS — HUGE] LAST TRAIN THROUGH! Whole ground shaking! LAST TRAIN THROUGH! No decision I'm faking! LAST TRAIN THROUGH! Let the city spin! I don't have to board it Just because The doors opened! [INSTRUMENTAL WTF] [BANJO PLAYS MAIN HOOK] [FIDDLE TAKES IT] [LES PAUL TAKES IT] [RAIL RHYTHM REVEALS IT HAS BEEN THE SAME RHYTHM AS THE HOOK] [OUTRO — SUNG] The station's still here... The tracks still run... Thought I forgot the way— Turns out I didn't. [TRAIN DOOR CHIME] I know the route. [DOORS BEGIN CLOSING] I know the route... [DOORS CLOSE] But knowing where it goes Don't mean I have to get on. [TRAIN DEPARTS] [UPRIGHT CONTINUES THE RAIL RHYTHM] Maybe next time. [FIDDLE] Maybe not. [END]
