You know that cliche rom com ending where the guy races to the train station to stop the girl from leaving? In reality, she goes anyway and he takes the train to see her. Then he takes it home. Aka 'Paperback Blues' when my ma's in the audience.
lyrics
Walking into the station
Paper bag in hand
Bought a small black coffee
From the newsstand man
Shut myself in a corner stall
Hold it level till I’ve poured it all on in
Check the cap, throw the latch
And nod back with a grin
Trying to keep my eye
On the weaving text
Like a butterfly
On a TV set
Like a dancer’s gaze
In a pirouette, I can
Watch a single blade on the ceiling fan
From my double bed
But then it moves backwards
And I’m losing track of
What used to matter and now
If the board reads right
I’m headed toward the light
At a hundred miles an hour
Stepping out onto the platform
Steam hits me in the face
Getting pushed along like cattle
Hey pal, this isn’t a race
Up the stairs into the sunshine
Might as well have been shot to outer space
Said she’s gonna meet me halfway
I can’t wait
Every time I’m in the city
I want to stay for good
Shack up with a pretty girl
Like any honest man would
Then there’s this demon that I can’t evade
It takes my money and it drags me screaming back
To my white wall jail cell
And my paper bag
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