Midnight Train - Keegan Joyce

There’s something about the midnight trains

Cause me to be lonely

Something in the quiet hum

Of rails that see all these

Sparks, now they’re lost

Dark March had cost…

Was it just the April rain

That caused me to be worried?

Could convincing droplets fall

And find you had been hurried?

Passed by me to you

Darkness ensued…

On my own, fluorescent in the night

Travelling true, my presence reflects the sight

You were the winds that leaves blew away

Spring soured summer, forever autumn will stay

Someone out the window-sill

Caught you looking elsewhere

Searching your own rocky seas

No signs but blank stares

Turbulence, in truth

Black May now moved…

Can I hear your cutest voice

Tell me now the plan’s changed?

June had brought no signs of proof

For you to have your thoughts reigned

Inside, uncouth

Black mould of youth…

On my own, fluorescent in the night

Travelling true, my presence reflects the sight

You were the winds that leaves blew away

Spring soured summer, forever autumn will stay

Here we are in August chill

Strapped in for a hiding

Cool consumes the midnight air

And you consume my pining

Bonds beyond our time

Off for your prime…

Somewhere 'long the rigid rails

Turning signals steered you

To build a false idolatry

Of same ambitions set to

See September spoil

Flung out and foiled…

On my own, fluorescent in the night

Travelling true, my presence reflects the sight

You were the winds that leaves blew away

Spring soured summer, forever autumn will stay

Over by the railway bridge

The unknown now was spotted

Months had moved, and I was noosed

Old October blotted

Out the moon’s clear light

Darkness closed tight…

Chunk and chunk o’er endless tracks

The midnight train keeps moving

Silvery strands shoot in a plume

Night skies turn to lotting

Fuelled only by faith

November’s state…

And so approached a passenger

To find the carriage empty

Ticket stubs strew platform floors

December had been heavy

Folly for flight

Trains at midnight…

On my own, fluorescent in the night

Travelling true, my presence reflects the sight

You were the winds that leaves blew away

Spring soured summer, forever autumn will stay

On my own, fluorescent in the night

Travelling true, my presence reflects the sight

You were the winds that leaves blew away

Spring soured summer, forever autumn will stay

There’s something about the midnight trains

That cause me to be lonely…