Solar Express

I didn't write the lyrics.

LYRICS:
[Intro]
Static tree in the corner
Cold plate, one cup on the table
Calendar stuck on December
But my mind’s ready for takeoff

[Verse 1]
Got the wrapping paper folded, but it’s all for me
Empty chairs around the counter, it’s just my TV
Reruns talking ’bout the joy that I don’t really see
So I close my eyes and book a different seat, yeah

Ticket punched in my pulse, feel it in my chest
Snow globe spinning, I just turn it to a quest
Every flake a little star that’s guiding me west
Toward a sunrise that I only see in my head

[Chorus]
Solar Express, I’m gone, I’m gone
Riding that rail through my thoughts till dawn
Out of this room, out past this stress
This Christmas I’m boarding the Solar Express

Finding my joy in a sky so wide
Red and green blur as I slip outside
If I’m alone, then I’ll still be blessed
’Cause I’m flying first class on the Solar Express

[Verse 2]
Living room quiet like a midnight church
Phone lit up, but I ghost that urge
Let ’em carol in the street, let ’em clink that glass
I got planets in my brain that they’ll never pass

Candy canes turn to comets when I drift away
Stockings hanging like rockets I can ride today
Every memory that hurt, I just let it float
Tie a ribbon on the pain, push it out the boat

Now the tinsel is a meteor shower on black
See my younger self waving, I can’t wave back
But I send him a smile from the captain’s chair
Tell him, “You’ll find peace in the stars up there”

[Chorus]
Solar Express, I’m gone, I’m gone
Riding that rail through my thoughts till dawn
Out of this room, out past this stress
This Christmas I’m boarding the Solar Express

[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Who needs a chimney when I got escape hatches
Open up my eyelids, whole universe hatches
(galaxy inside me)
Wrapping up the silence in a shining bow
Turn the darkest December to a neon glow

[whispered vocals]
If the world don’t call my name tonight
I’ll write it on a moon and let it burn so bright

[Chorus]