Passing Through Time

Like fragments of memories Caught in shattered glass and steel These phantom trains show us lives We might have lived but cannot feel Through windows streaked with time itself A thousand maybes dance and sway Each reflection holds a world Where different choices rule the day Speed through stations never built Past the weight of strangers' guilt Every car holds someone's story Fading fast into the night We're passing through time Through moments suspended in light Each window, a door To what might have been, what's in store But something's not right As shadows grow deeper tonight Through corridors of possibility Where broken chains take flight While parallel paths show familiar scenes Where nothing burns as bright Every branching future splits Like lightning through a storm-dark sky Some paths blazing glory bound While others dim and slowly die The wheels are screaming now Metal grinding, time slowing down The lights are dimming fast This wasn't meant to last In all my years watching trains depart Never have I seen the tracks lead here What you seek lies not beyond the dark But within its depths, a thing to fear The boundless dark itself Contains your answer This is unprecedented Dangerous Wait, can you feel it The train is failing The darkness is calling We're falling, we're falling Now suspended in this void Where even starlight fears to tread Every possibility dissolves Like morning dreams inside our heads Between the spaces time forgot Where reality unwinds and frays We're trapped within this moment As the darkness finds its way The darkness consumes The engine dies What waits beyond these haunted rides