Track 2 of the single Radio Tower Lullaby / First Train Blue · 2024
First Train Blue
“I wrote the first verse on a very early platform with a flask of tea, half asleep and weirdly hopeful. It's the sound of the city just before it gets loud.”
dream pop · shoegaze pop · neo-soul · jangle pop · 4:30
Lyrics
The platform glows a sleepy green A kettle steams behind the glass The sky is still the colour of a bruise Healing into something softer A cleaner hums and rolls his cart A pigeon walks the yellow line The rails begin to hum and sing Before the train has even shown And I stayed up Through the whole long dark And the dark was kind And now there's a spark Here comes the first train, blue and slow Sliding in like a held-out breath Carry the night-owls home Carry the lonely and the almost-asleep Here comes the first train, blue and slow Morning is only a door ajar A thermos, and a folded coat A stranger nods, we both know why We kept our small hours company And now we're keeping each other's And I stayed up Through the whole long dark And the dark was kind And now there's a spark Here comes the first train, blue and slow Sliding in like a held-out breath Carry the night-owls home Carry the lonely and the almost-asleep Here comes the first train, blue and slow Morning is only a door ajar Colours bleed across the tracks Violet melting into gold Everything I couldn't say Floats up and thins like steam Here comes the first train, blue and slow Sliding in like a held-out breath Carry the night-owls home Carry the lonely and the almost-asleep Here comes the first train, blue and slow Morning is only a door ajar Blue and slow Blue and slow Morning is a door ajar