[STYLE: Slow Blues, deeply emotional and atmospheric, spacious minor-key blues with dramatic phrasing and long sustained guitar notes] [INTRO: 8 bars, clean electric guitar playing slow expressive phrases, sparse piano chords, deep bass, very restrained drums, distant Hammond B3] [VERSE 1] There's one more train leaving At the end of the night There's one more train leaving Before the morning light I've been standing on this platform With your picture in my hand Trying to understand a love I could never understand [PRE-CHORUS: Guitar sustains long notes, Hammond swells] I waited through the winter I waited through the rain But every empty station Still whispers out your name [CHORUS: Full but spacious arrangement] I'm waiting for the last train home The last train home tonight I'm waiting for the last train home To take me out of sight I've got nothing left to carry But this heart of mine I'm waiting for the last train home Before I lose my mind [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK 1: 8 bars, slow expressive electric guitar solo, sustained bends and vibrato, piano fills between phrases] [VERSE 2] I remember how you held me On that cold December night I remember how you told me Everything would be alright But promises are fragile When the years begin to change And sometimes what we called forever Turns into a stranger's name [PRE-CHORUS: Arrangement drops back] I tried to keep believing I tried to make it stay But love can disappear Without a word to say [CHORUS: Full band] I'm waiting for the last train home The last train home tonight I'm waiting for the last train home To take me out of sight I've got nothing left to carry But this heart of mine I'm waiting for the last train home Before I lose my mind [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK 2: 10 bars, Hammond B3 and electric guitar call-and-response, slow blues phrasing] [VERSE 3] There's an old man by the ticket booth Who looks as tired as me There's an old man by the ticket booth Staring at the empty street He said, "Son, I've seen a thousand hearts Come through this station door They all thought they were leaving pain But they always wanted more" [BRIDGE: Piano and vocal, very sparse] Maybe we don't leave our memories Maybe they leave us first Maybe every broken heart Has to learn to live with hurt Maybe somewhere down the line I'll find another way But tonight I'm just a lonely man Watching one more day [BREAKDOWN: 8 bars, piano alone with distant Hammond] [FINAL CHORUS: Powerful emotional climax] I'm waiting for the last train home But I don't need it anymore I'm waiting for the last train home But I can walk through my own door I've been carrying your memory Like a weight inside my soul Tonight I'm leaving sorrow On that old deserted road I'm waiting for the last train home And I hear the whistle blow I'm waiting for the last train home But I finally know I don't have to leave this town To leave the past behind The last train home was waiting Inside my mind [INSTRUMENTAL FINALE: 16 bars, emotional guitar solo, Hammond B3 sustained chords, piano descending phrases, bass and drums slowly intensifying then releasing] [FINAL VOCAL AD LIBS] Last train... I hear it coming... But I ain't running anymore... I'm going home... [OUTRO: 10 bars, clean guitar reprises opening motif, Hammond slowly fades] [ENDING: Long sustained electric guitar note with gentle vibrato, final piano chord fading naturally]
