Arrivals, Gate Door Sliding Open

Lyrics

The board flips over, one more name
Your flight is landed, still not through
I hold a paper sign I made
With nothing written, only you

The doors slide open, close again
A stranger's suitcase, someone's son
I count the footsteps in the hall
And every one is not the one

My heart is practising your face
Before it's even in this place

Slide open, slide open, let the morning through
Let the long night's distance walk back into view
I have waited in the lamplight, I have waited in the hum
Slide open, slide open, love, and let my traveller come

A tired child asleep on a shoulder
A bouquet wilting in a hand
A woman laughing into a phone
We all are waiting, understand

My heart is practising your face
Before it's even in this place

Slide open, slide open, let the morning through
Let the long night's distance walk back into view
I have waited in the lamplight, I have waited in the hum
Slide open, slide open, love, and let my traveller come

And there, between the strangers
A coat I know, a walk I know
The whole wide hall goes quiet
And the sign falls soft and slow

Slide open, slide open, you are walking into view
Every mile that parted us is folded into two
No more waiting in the lamplight, no more waiting in the hum
Slide open, slide open, love, my traveller has come

My traveller has come