When you left to the roar of the train [2000]

When you left to the roar of the train
Mingled with your fading footsteps
I heard the sound of my own breath
Which grew louder as you vanished
Everything is louder now

The clock, cars, wind shout me down
The toilet still leaks a constant hiss
Reminding me of my inability to fix
The microscopic hole where it wastes
You close the door

Now that you're gone I wake up bittersweet
For my dreams are of you suddenly returning
Sun burnt and speaking another language
Which only you and I understand
And speak by phone

When I drive by the neglected station
The empty brick where last we touched
Rubble which remembers its history
As from its grave rise pillars of the new
I see the metaphor

And when I lie in the stifling darkness
Battling for soothing unconsciousness
With the clanging and growling street
The bed a vast wasteland I cannot fill
I taste your lips

Remember your eyes glistening there
The streetlamp glowing on your cheek
Feel your weight on the mattress
Wishing you could steal the blanket
From me now