Smiling At Strangers On Trains Lyrics

it was the strangest thing today - i saw new footprints in abandoned pathways beneath forgotten undergrowth something stirring again.
you were a single red blood cell,
but i lost you in this knot of capillaries,
but you were bringing me oxygen when i needed it most in the smoke.

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and you were always as far as mongolia,
as close as my clothes,
your presence pervading, but it still never shows.
as close as the answer i never quite know, or can't quite remember.
your distance insidious, as soft as a blow.
your shadow is with me wherever i go.
it's on the tip of my tongue but still i never quite know,
or can't quite remember. i don't quite remember. Million Dead - Smiling At Strangers On Trains - http://motolyrics.com/million-dead/smiling-at-strangers-on-trains-lyrics.html

the forced proximity of a million different mike leigh movies makes me long for the fresh air of a familiar face, and not the violence of loneliness, nor the unease of surrounded seclusion. i keep nearly missing you around corners and in passing trains.

[chorus]
and you were always as far as mongolia,
as close as my clothes,
your presence pervading, but it still never shows.
as close as the answer i never quite know, or can't quite remember.
your distance insidious, as soft as a blow.
your shadow is with me wherever i go.
it's on the tip of my tongue but still i never quite know,
or can't quite remember. i don't quite remember.

and if i'd known that you weren't so far away, that you were never that far away, i could've rode this train smiling.