Ghost Trains & Open Roads

Verse 1]

We were weeks from opening the doors

White coats waiting, lights still cold

Then sirens filled the silence

And the future never showed

I left work early one afternoon

Train rocking like it knew

Stopped for allergy medicine

Found the shelves stripped through

I called your mom from aisle three

Voice lower than the floor

They were pitching tents in Central Park

Talking ’bout closing doors

That’s when fear stopped whispering

And finally said my name

The city held its breath that night

And didn’t breathe again

When New York started looking empty

When the noise finally went quiet

I knew this wasn’t just a season

This was the end of a life

Not the skyline, not the streets

But who we were inside

I didn’t know where we were going

I just knew it was time

Our favorite places boarded up

Friends already gone

The busiest city in the world

Forgot its song

I packed my career into silence

Folded dreams with my clothes

All I had was what I’d saved

And a fear I couldn’t outgrow

I didn’t know if work would wait

Or if the city would remember me

Just knew staying wasn’t living

And leaving was honesty

We chose what fit in our hands

And let the rest fall back

When New York started looking empty

And the trains stopped feeling safe

I left behind the life I loved

For a question mark and faith

Not the chances, not the climb

But the version of us there

We weren’t running toward an answer

We were choosing care

We took our clothes, the food we had

The cat, the dog, that’s all

Everything we couldn’t carry

Didn’t matter at all

I didn’t save the job or the plan

I saved the people who said my name

So if loving you meant leaving

Every street that made me strong

I’d walk away from every dream

If it meant we carried on

I didn’t choose the safer future

I chose what felt true

I left the city that made us comfortable

For the family that made us you

The train disappeared behind us

As Connecticut came into view

I didn’t know what we were building

Just knew I was choosing you