Five Points — Arriving

Lyrics

[Intro — iron-rail rattle, one vibraphone chime, a breath]
(…the dark gets close… the dark gets warm…)

[Verse — breathy, rising]
Down through the city, down through the floors,
past the 1901 stone in the wall —
they hammered a stake in the red clay once
and built the whole world from the fall.

Four lines breathing through a single heart,
the zero-mile post in the station's soul —
hold the rail… here it comes…
out of Terminus, out of the dark.

[Lift — brakes sigh, the chime doubles]
(doors—)