Last Train Home

There's a woman by the window / Reading something with a blue cover / She smiles at a sentence / Then looks out at the passing houses / Two boys are sharing headphones / One keeps missing the beat / An old man holds a paper bag / Carefully between his feet / I wonder where they're going / Though nobody looks like me / Maybe she has someone waiting / Maybe she's hoping they won't be / The man with the paper bag / Gets off three stops before me / He checks the platform twice / As if he forgot what he came for / For a moment I imagine / They are all carrying a secret / Something too ordinary to mention / Something they would never tell me / And somewhere in their morning / I am probably nobody / Just another face they won't remember / When the doors open again / The woman closes up her book / She catches me looking over / I look down at my hands / She smiles, but only for a second / The train begins to slow / The windows fill with station signs / She stands before I do / And suddenly I don't want her to leave / The doors open / She walks out / I never learn her name / The train moves on / And for the rest of the journey / I give her a life / That probably wasn't hers