(j. webb/c.simon)

Got on in new haven
Last car on the train.
Put my hat on the seat
Wipe the tears from my eyes.

I watched my life go by
Like a movie in my brain.
Scenes unreeling;
In a sceneless chain
On the window
And a silver screen of rain!

And the opening title scroll
And the score comes in and under.
And I'm in the starring role
In a world of love-struck wonder;

It's a tale full of promiseabout two crazy kids;
Falling in lovebut in flashback.

And then the music
That gorgeous music;
And I wake up
Rattling down the railroad track.

He could be sweet
But I stayed on my guard.
Just how good a liar
Can a decent man be?

I always played my hand
Like I didn't have the cards.
Cause he held them all
So I could never see.
Yeshe played me for a fool
And I agreed.

And the closing credits roll
And the waves come in like thunder.
Cause the hero's lost control
And I made a fatal blunder.

Just another sad story;
Two star-crossed kids
Racing headlong up a cul-de-sac.

And then that music
That mournful music.
And the train's disappearing
Down that railroad track.

And the longslow dissolve
As we fade to black.