The Last Evening lyrics

He met her after supper by the rail She said the sea looked darker than before He laughed and told her oceans always did Once there was nothing left to see from shore They walked a while beneath the wireless wires The engines drummed beneath their measured pace She asked if New York looked the way they said He said he'd know it when he saw the place The ship moved west The stars held fast Neither one was thinking of the ice Neither one was thinking of the sea They spoke about the years that lay ahead As people do when years appear to be Waiting Waiting Waiting She told him of a brother lost to fever He told her of a shop he'd hoped to own She asked if he believed in second chances He said he guessed he'd find out soon enough The music from the lounge escaped in fragments A steward crossed the deck and disappeared Somewhere a child refused to go to sleep Somewhere a bottle broke and no one cared The ship moved west The stars held fast Neither one was thinking of the ice Neither one was thinking of the sea They spoke about the years that lay ahead As people do when years appear to be Waiting Waiting Waiting Then somebody ran Then somebody shouted Then every sentence changed its meaning Neither one was thinking of the ice Neither one was thinking of the sea The words they said remained exactly where They vanished into dark posterity Still waiting Still waiting Still waiting The ocean kept their conversation The ocean never told it back