(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 promise, about two crazy kids;
Falling in love, but 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.
Yes, he 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 long, slow dissolve,
As we fade to black.