(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.