Pick One Platform

[Verse 1]
Glass walls carry every view
A hundred towns come sliding through
A harbor bell, a mountain pass
My face floats back against the glass

[Pre-Chorus]
The map keeps opening its hands
Each mile asks where I will stand

[Chorus]
Pick one platform, let the rest roll by
One door open, a whole sky saying goodbye
Every road is calling, every sign is bright
I can’t ride every tomorrow in a single night
Pick one platform, let the wheels decide
All those other lives still streaming outside
I’ll step down, I’ll step down
While the train keeps carrying the maybe-me around

[Verse 2]
A red-roof town, a winter shore
The life I’ve never tried before
They flash like rooms I might have known
Then vanish past the window’s chrome

[Pre-Chorus]
The map keeps opening its hands
Each mile asks where I will stand

[Chorus]
Pick one platform, let the rest roll by
One door open, a whole sky saying goodbye
Every road is calling, every sign is bright
I can’t ride every tomorrow in a single night
Pick one platform, let the wheels decide
All those other lives still streaming outside
I’ll step down, I’ll step down
While the train keeps carrying the maybe-me around

[Bridge]
No window can hold every view
No choice can make the others untrue
I’ll take the street beneath my shoes
And let the passing worlds keep moving too

[Final Chorus]
Pick one platform, let the rest roll by
One door open, a whole sky saying goodbye
Every road is calling, every sign is bright
I choose this morning, I choose this life
Pick one platform, let the wheels decide
All those other lives still streaming outside
I’ll step down, I’ll step down
And carry what I chose when the train rolls out of town

[Outro]
One door open
One road begun