[Intro] Silver line Silver line [Verse 1] There’s a light beneath your doorway Thin as a promise, pale as rain I can see you moving softly But I can’t make out your face There’s a wire by the window Humming secrets through the wall And I keep my fingers near it Like I’m waiting for your call [Pre-Chorus] I don’t know where the night begins I don’t know where I end But something in the quiet says Don’t go back again [Chorus] Silver line Running through the dark Pulling on my heart Like a train I’ll never see Silver line Between your room and mine Between the wrong and right Between the girl I was And who I’m trying to be [Verse 2] There’s a station past the river Where the lonely people stand With their tickets folded over Like a future in their hands And I thought I heard you whisper Through the static on the phone “Baby, cross the little distance You don’t have to sleep alone” [Pre-Chorus] But I have been loved carelessly And I have been unkind So I stand here in the hallway At the silver line [Chorus] Silver line Running through the dark Pulling on my heart Like a train I’ll never see Silver line Between your room and mine Between the wrong and right Between the girl I was And who I’m trying to be [Bridge] If I step across, will the whole world change? Will my name sound different in your mouth? Will the morning come like a window shade Or will the midnight turn me out? I have spent my life at thresholds One hand raised and one hand still Wanting every open door And frightened that I will [Verse 3] Now the rain is on the railing Now the phone has lost its song Now the train is in the distance Now the light is almost gone Still I see it in the doorway Still I hear it in the wire Still it shines across the floorboards Like a thin and tender fire [Final Chorus] Silver line Running through the dark Pulling on my heart Like a train I’ll never see Silver line Between your room and mine Between the wrong and right Between the girl I was And who I’m trying to be Silver line If I cross you, I may fall If I don’t, I lose it all Either way, you shine for me Silver line Ooh, silver line Ooh, silver line Carry me, carry me [Outro] There’s a light beneath your doorway There’s a wire in the rain There’s a train beyond the river Calling out my name Silver line Silver line
