Last Train

[Verse 1]
The board says twelve forty-one, then nothing
I take the stairs two at a time
The doors decide before I do
Two red lights shrink into the tunnel
A sodium lamp hums over platform four
My phone dies at two percent, politely
The vending machine is the brightest thing here
I buy a coffee I don't want

[Pre-Chorus]
The shutter comes down halfway
Like it's giving me a minute

[Chorus]
Last train's gone without me —
Two red lights and then the dark
Nobody's waiting up for me
I'll walk the long way home —

[Verse 2]
The night bus timetable is fiction
Every forty minutes, allegedly
One taxi, one driver, engine running
He quotes a fare I can't justify
Not to myself, not by morning
So I read the safety notices instead
I know every exit by heart now
The cleaner nods. We've done this before

[Pre-Chorus]
The shutter's all the way down now
So that was the minute

[Chorus]
Last train's gone without me —
Two red lights and then the dark
Nobody's waiting up for me
I'll walk the long way home —

[Bridge]
I could call someone, with what
My phone's a small black brick
My keys are in my pocket, useless
Home is eleven stops of dark

[Chorus]
Last train's gone without me —
Two red lights and then the dark
Nobody's waiting up for me
I'll walk the whole way home —

[Outro]
The lamp keeps humming on platform four
Someone should tell it we're closed

Notes