Midnight trains grind sparks below

Platform smells of diesel smoke

Your old ticket in my coat

Ink runs blue from what you wrote

Say your name —

Cold rain.

Coins shake in the payphone slot

Signal cuts, then stops

Across the invisible line

Your pulse stutters into mine

Static crawling through the wire

Breath against the amplifier

Across the invisible line

Streetlights flicker, don’t align

Miles can bend but never steal

What time makes real

Across the invisible line

Your pulse stutters into mine

Static crawling through the wire

Breath against the amplifier

Last tram groans as it drags past

Lipstick mark on coffee rim

Cheap perfume and iodine

Hold on —

Still warm

If the world keeps turning us apart

I trace your number on my arm

Through the dark, through subway light

Metal screaming in the night

Hear me now —

No vow.

Just your shadow in the steam

Across the invisible line

Your pulse stutters into mine

Static crawling through the wire

Breath against the amplifier

Across the invisible line

Streetlights flicker, don’t align

Miles can bend but never steal

What time makes real

Across the invisible line

Your pulse stutters into mine

Static crawling through the wire

Breath against the amplifier

Across the invisible line…

Across the invisible line…

Across the invisible line…

Receiver swings.

Dial tone.