Boards Ticking Over
Style: Bossa nova

[Verse 1]
I stand beneath the flicking signs
waiting on a platform, cold and bare
every name that clatters by means nothing
until I picture you standing there

[Pre-chorus]
My heart keeps ticking like those boards
spinning through the names it cannot place
still it lands on only one for certain

[Chorus]
Atlas, you're the one I'm waiting for
every station empty till you come
Atlas, nothing here feels right before
you arrive and everything's undone

[Verse 2]
I've watched a hundred trains pull through
never once did my breath catch this way
you walked slow like time was only asking
one more moment before you'd stay

[Pre-chorus]
My heart keeps ticking like those boards
spinning through the names it cannot place
still it lands on only one for certain

[Chorus]
Atlas, you're the one I'm waiting for
every station empty till you come
Atlas, nothing here feels right before
you arrive and everything's undone

[Bridge]
No timetable could hold what I feel
no departure ever pulls us apart
you're the constant that the boards can't measure
steady like the beat inside my heart

[Chorus]
Atlas, you're the one I'm waiting for
every station empty till you come
Atlas, nothing here feels right before
you arrive and everything's undone

[Outro]
The boards keep ticking, but I don't mind
you're already here, and I'm not blind

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