Next Stop, Never

[Intro: distant train, reversed piano]
(choo-choo, ooh-ah-ah)
[Warm 808 pulse]

[Verse 1: melodic syncopated flow]
Got a window seat in paradise
Beautiful companions, beautiful ride
Every station glows with somewhere new
Every passing face, a life I never knew
(oh-oh, never knew)

[Pre-Chorus: climbing falsetto]
The tracks are golden underneath
So why's the leaving haunting me?

[Chorus: soaring layered harmonies]
Every town is calling my name
Every road's a beautiful shame
I'm on the train I wanted to ride
But I'm falling for the passing countryside
(ah-ah-ah, let me go!)
How can I love where I belong
And still want every place that's gone?

[Drop: pitched vocal chops, sliding bass]
(stay-stay, go-go)
(bmm-ka-tss, ah-ee-ah!)

[Bridge: stripped piano, fragile]
I know a thousand destinations
Can't fit inside a single life
But knowing doesn't stop the ache
Of every turn I didn't take

[Outro: descending falsetto]
(Next stop... never)
[Train fades]