
Date of issue: 02.08.2012
Record label: Integrity
Song language: English
Smiling at Strangers on Trains |
It was the strangest thing today |
I saw new footprints in abandoned pathways |
Beneath forgotten undergrowth something stirring again |
You were a single red blood cell but I lost you in the knot of capillaries |
But you were bringing me oxygen when I needed it most in the smoke |
And you were always as far as Mongolia |
As close as my clothes |
Your presence pervading |
But it still never shows |
As close as the answer I never quite know |
Or can’t quite remember |
Your distance insidious |
As soft as a blow |
Your shadow is with me wherever I go |
It’s on the tip of my tongue but still I never quite know |
Or can’t quite remember |
I don’t quite remember |
The forced proximity of a million different Mike Leigh movies |
Makes me long for the fresh air of a familiar face |
And not the violence of loneliness |
Nor the unease of surrounded seclusion |
I keep nearly missing you around corners and in passing trains |
And if I’d known that you weren’t so far away |
That you were never that far away |
I could’ve rode this train smiling |
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