Ming Teapot, Midnight Hush (Version 2)

Verse 1

Red leaves skid along the tracks

You read your watch like it's the bill

The tea shop pulls its shutters down

But leaves a lantern on the sill

The whole street's leaning in to hear

What neither one of us will say

Your hand slips into my pocket

Like it already knows the way

Pre-Chorus

The board says ten past eleven

The bell is ringing soft and low

Let everybody else go running

I'm in no hurry, so

Chorus

Let's miss the last tram

Watch it rattle out of view

Let's miss the last tram

I'll take the long way home with you

Ming teapot, midnight hush

Your coat's open, mine is too

Nobody gets up for a bus

Ming teapot, midnight hush

Verse 2

The driver tips his cap at us

Like he's in on the joke tonight

The rails go humming down the hill

Then fold into a string of light

Now it's only lamps an

d the sound we make

Of nothing left to chase

Nothing left that breaks

You turn your collar up and breathe slow

Like the night was made for you alone

And I believe it, don't you know

Pre-Chorus

The board says ten past eleven

The bell is ringing soft and low

Let everybody else go running

I'm in no hurry, so

Chorus

Let's miss the last tram

Watch it rattle out of view

Let's miss the last tram

I'll take the long way home with you

Ming teapot, midnight hush

Your coat's open, mine is too

Nobody gets up for a bus

Ming teapot, midnight hush

Bridge

What if we don't have to run

What if this is just us two

Every lantern on the street

Just one warm light shining through

No more trains, no more time zones

Nothing left but you and me

And the soft sound of leaves on stones

Drifting down into the sea

Chorus

Let's miss the last tram

Watch it rattle out of view

Let's miss the last tram

I'll take the long way home with you

Ming teapot, midnight hush

Your coat's open, mine is too

Nobody gets up for a bus

Ming teapot, midnight hush