Songtext Smiling at strangers on trains Million Dead

Smiling at strangers on trains

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.
and you were always
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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 cant quite remember
your distance insidious, as soft as a blow
your shadow is with me wherever i go
its on the tip of my tongue but still i never quite know, or cant quite remember
i dont quite remember
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
and if id known that you werent so far away
that you were never that far away
i couldve rode this train smiling.