Empty Trains in Winter

Verse 1

The platform glows fluorescent blue

Like a memory refusing sleep

Everybody here looks transparent

Half erased by routine and fatigue

A woman stares into the darkened glass

Watching her reflection drift away

While advertisements flicker softly

For lives nobody here can afford to save

The train arrives like slow machinery

Breathing sparks into the cold

And I step inside with all the other ghosts

Too exhausted left to go home

Chorus

Empty trains in winter

Moving silently through rain

Carrying tired strangers

Trying to outrun themselves again

And the city keeps unfolding

Cold and endless underneath

While I drift through stations like static

No longer sure what's left of me

Verse 2

There's condensation on the windows

Blurring every passing light

The buildings look like dying signals

Floating endlessly through night

Somewhere above us people are sleeping

Wrapped inside ordinary dreams

While I dissolve into the movement

Of tunnels, wires, smoke, and steam

And every stop feels strangely distant

Like places I already left behind

Even when the doors stay open

I never really know why I'm riding

Bridge

Maybe loneliness becomes geography eventually

Entire cities built from emotional distance

Millions of people moving beside each other

Without ever truly arriving anywhere

And maybe survival is only momentum

Keeping yourself in motion long enough

To avoid hearing your own thoughts clearly

Final Chorus

Empty trains in winter

Beneath collapsing morning skies

Every exhausted soul reflected

In fluorescent sleepless eyes

And somewhere beyond the frozen river

Daylight slowly stains the grey

But the city keeps carrying me forward

Even as parts of me fade away