Midnight trains grind sparks below Platform smells of diesel smoke Your old ticket in my coat Ink runs blue from what you wrote Say your name — Cold rain. Coins shake in the payphone slot Signal cuts, then stops Across the invisible line Your pulse stutters into mine Static crawling through the wire Breath against the amplifier Across the invisible line Streetlights flicker, don’t align Miles can bend but never steal What time makes real Across the invisible line Your pulse stutters into mine Static crawling through the wire Breath against the amplifier Last tram groans as it drags past Lipstick mark on coffee rim Cheap perfume and iodine Hold on — Still warm If the world keeps turning us apart I trace your number on my arm Through the dark, through subway light Metal screaming in the night Hear me now — No vow. Just your shadow in the steam Across the invisible line Your pulse stutters into mine Static crawling through the wire Breath against the amplifier Across the invisible line Streetlights flicker, don’t align Miles can bend but never steal What time makes real Across the invisible line Your pulse stutters into mine Static crawling through the wire Breath against the amplifier Across the invisible line… Across the invisible line… Across the invisible line… Receiver swings. Dial tone.
