Last Train Optional (version 2)

Verse 1

The bartender folds a napkin like a secret note

The bass player's grinning at the girl in the green coat

You ask me what time it is, I check my empty wrist

Funny how a watch goes missing on a night like this

Pre-Chorus

Down the street the station hums

Counting heads before it runs

Chorus

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Keep the ice turning slow

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The city's in no hurry, so

Pour me one more measure

Of that low saxophone

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I know the long way home

Verse 2

The city leans against the window, nosy as a cat

The neon tries to read our lips, imagine that

You tell a joke so dry it needs a twist of lime

And the drummer sweeps the minutes like he's got all the time

Pre-Chorus

Down the street the station hums

Counting heads before it runs

Chorus

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Keep the ice turning slow

Last train optional

The city's in no hurry, so

Pour me one more measure

Of that low saxophone

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I know the long way home

Bridge

Somewhere a platform clears its throat

The doors sigh shut on the last note

Let it roll on out of sight

I'm running on piano time tonight

Final Chorus

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Keep the ice turning slow

Last train optional

The city's in no hurry, so

Pour me one more measure

Of that low saxophone

Last train optional

I know the long way home

Outro

Last train optional

Sunrise, optional

Keep the ice turning slow