Evening Train

Would you find it strange

If I touched your face

With my winter hands?

Look how close we're standing

On this evening train

Would it be fine if we stayed

Where I can feel your warmth

And my lungs expanding?

Oh god, I'm terrified of landing

Could it be there's been a misunderstanding?

And if I fell asleep

Would I wake to familiar arms

Lifting me out of this car

Into a single bed

Where the morning would clear my head

Of all the things that I'd dreamt?

You are every man

Made of concrete plans

Full of walls and doors

Sturdy ceilings

I am sinking sand

I am barren land

I am quietly stranded

I'm barely breathing

Could it be that these feelings

Have been misleading?

And if I fell asleep

Would I wake to familiar arms

Lifting me out of this car

Into a single bed

Where the morning would clear my head

Of all the things that I'd dreamt?

If I touched your cheek

Could you be the passage light

Guiding my eyes in the night

Till I drift away?

And the morning could wake me up

To tell me that she'd stay