Lyrics: Service Not Yet Running

Lyrics: Service Not Yet Running

[Mood: suspended resolve] [Energy: slow walking pulse with held breaths]

[Intro | station hum | close vocal] The board wakes up in pieces green names on the rain

[Verse 1 | almost spoken | dry close vocal] I put a pound in the ticket tray so my hand would leave me alone Stand C smells like old coffee and a coat that is not quite home

The cleaner works around me with the radio turned low I count the routes I could become and the one I nearly chose

[Pre-Chorus | held breath | sparse lift] The speaker clicks then says my line service not yet running you have time

[Chorus | small lift | intimate] So let the rain learn the platform let the first bus idle on I am not gone I am not gone Leave the coin in the metal mouth leave my bag beside me now I am not gone not gone yet

[Verse 2 | clipped phrases | more exposed] Five twelve glows for Warrington like a dare in a glass frame Airport at forty past with nobody calling my name

I had two shirts and a charger and the black wool full of rain I thought a place built for leaving would take the leaving pain

[Pre-Chorus | more pressure | breath before lift] The doors stay shut the blue lights hum service not yet running I can come undone

[Chorus | fuller but restrained] So let the rain learn the platform let the first bus idle on I am not gone I am not gone Leave the coin in the metal mouth leave my bag beside me now I am not gone not gone yet

[Bridge | stripped | nearly spoken] No one has to forgive me before the morning starts I can sit here with my ticket and my uncollected heart

[Final Chorus | warm small release] So let the rain learn the platform let the first bus idle on I am not gone I am not gone Leave the coin in the metal mouth leave my bag beside me now I am not gone not gone yet

[Outro | station hum | fade] Service not yet running rain on the glass my name in the speaker and the bus lets it pass