This Blue Train (Reprise)

You have found me...

you left my side, my mind, my sanity by the road long ago. 

But now I sit with you ...here...and alone. 

Nothing is said ...only silence mimics our conversation...

I knew you would be here as I saw you on the dark clouds that were fast approaching.

 But ...what do you want of me?

 I have nothing left to give ..nor have I more to lose. 

I can't battle you on this field; as you hold the advantage, I have no one to stand with me ...

to rally the final charge ....in shallow hopes of dislodging you from my mind. 

My conscience is my only voice now...

I ponder this stranglehold I thought once gone.

 I tell myself to hold on to the voice of reason..

to let this "blue train" pass. 

Why have I chosen today to wage this battle? 

Perhaps I'm tired of the retreat...the sanguine memories of what might have been. 

This blue train has stationed it's patrons and porters just outside of my glance. Lonliness is your choice of cruelty and stratagem.
I have known this loneliness before...

I know the rules...

silence is the code.
But I won't play to your unilateral standard ...not this time .

 Encryption will divulge the heart...to those that look to see, and listen to hear.
Tomorrow..the next day..maybe next month...

eventually you will retire from this station...and I will remain behind. 

I will be here, pondering the next journey that is before me.

 Wondering how long it will be before I see those blue plumes upon my horizon once again.

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