[Verse 1] Chlewey closed the school gate No undergrad, not yet He wanted one last trip One last math quest WordPerfect screen at night XT clone in the room Pages full of stories Then gone, too soon [Pre-Chorus] Free time on his hands No class, no train Just a new notebook And a half-lit brain First page, first breath Ink on the line What was lost in the past Started shining again [Chorus] Travel notes, travel notes Turn the page, let it glow Travel notes, travel notes Where the old ghosts go (go, go) China on his tongue Stockholm in his bones Travel notes, travel notes He wrote it all alone (alone) [Verse 2] July took him east For the China sky Math Olympiads trip With a writer’s eye Hèla smiled at him Tunis in her name For one bright moment He forgot the same Adriana’s shadow Slipped out of sight Then the memory came back By the end of the night [Pre-Chorus] Then north came the cold Blue water, white streets Two and a half years With a new heartbeat Scripts turned to letters Pages learned to stay From handwritten lines To an electronic way [Chorus] Travel notes, travel notes Turn the page, let it glow Travel notes, travel notes Where the old ghosts go (go, go) China on his tongue Stockholm in his bones Travel notes, travel notes He wrote it all alone (alone) [Bridge] Dates got worn away Revision by revision Some years blurred together In the half-light vision Still the words kept moving Still the hand kept true Lost in the timeline But alive in the blue [Chorus] Travel notes, travel notes Turn the page, let it glow Travel notes, travel notes Where the old ghosts go (go, go) China on his tongue Stockholm in his bones Travel notes, travel notes He wrote it all alone (alone) [Outro] First year, last page Then the rest unfolds In a notebook’s shadow The memory holds (holds)
