Votum - Train back home

"[...] chciałem żyć świadomie, [...] czerpać ze źródeł życia samą jego istotę, odrzucić wszystko co nie było nim, by w godzinie śmierci nie odkryć, że nie żyłem"

“[…] I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"
– Henry David Thoreau

I never thought that night would change my life so entirely –
An evening at an old friend’s house, a glass of wine…
I was supposed to stay ‘till eight, but then again I thought
I’ll take another train back home
I’ll take another train back home

The time has come for me to go, though they insisted:
“Stay for the night,” they said, “streets look so empty tonight.”
I’ll take another train back home
I’ll take another train back home
Take another train

The second I opened the door is still coming back to me every night;
I wish I could take a halt and turn back time.

There on the doorsteps I looked at the stars –
Twinkling pranksters spun my time –
I took a deep breath and thought: “Life’s beautiful”.

Somewhere in the night
That train’s still rolling…

Somewhere in the night
My train’s still running…