Smiling at Strangers on Trains

It was the strangest thing today
 I saw new footprints in abandoned pathways
 Beneath forgotten undergrowth, something stirring again
 You were a single red blood cell
 But I lost you in this knot of capillaries
 But you were bringing me oxygen when I needed it most in the smoke
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 And you were always
 And you were always
 And you were always
 And you were always
 As far as Mongolia
 As close as my clothes
 Your presence pervading
 But it still never shows
 As close as the answer
 I never quite know
 Or don't quite remember
 Your distance insidious
 As soft as a blow
 Your shadow is with me
 Wherever I go
 It's on the tip of my tongue
 But still I never quite know
 I don't quite remember
 I don't quite remember
 The forced proximity of a million different Mike Leigh movies
 Makes me long for the fresh air of a familiar face
 And not the violence of loneliness
 Nor the unease of surrounded seclusion
 I keep nearly missing you around corners and in passing trains
 As far as Mongolia
 As close as my clothes
 Your presence pervading
 But it still never shows
 As close as the answer
 I never quite know
 Or don't quite remember
 Your distance insidious
 As soft as a blow
 Your shadow is with me
 Wherever I go
 It's on the tip of my tongue
 It's on the tip of my
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 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 If I'd known
 That you weren't so far away
 That you weren't so far away
 That you weren't so far away
 That you were never that far away
 That you weren't so far away
 That you weren't so far away
 That you weren't so far away
 I could've rode this train smiling