Smiling at Strangers on Trains

[Verse]

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

[Pre-Chorus]

And you were always

And you were always

And you were always

And you were always

[Chorus]

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 I 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 I can't quite remember

I don't quite remember

[Verse]

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

[Chorus]

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 I 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

Its on the tip of my

[Outro]

If I'd known x15

That you weren't so far away

That you weren't so far away

That you weren't so far away

That you were never that far away

That you weren't so far away

That you weren't so far away

That you weren't so far away

I could've rode this train smiling