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[Intro - slow synth, half-remembered]

[Verse 1]
An airport gate, a winter night
A thousand strangers in a line
The boarding call, the flicker light
A paper cup gone cold in mine
My hair has long since turned to gray
My hands have learned the weight of years
Then somewhere down the concourse way
A single color reappears

[Pre-Chorus]
The room goes quiet, just the same
The colors drain away to gray
Twenty seconds...
[pause]
[spoken]
I know this...
[whispered]
I've been here before

[Chorus]
She's going against the grain
Swimming upstream through the crowd
Everybody's moving one way
But she's turned around
Out of all these thousand faces
Something in me knows her name
And it's coming back to me
Against the grain

[Verse 2]
The same man laughing to my left
The same drink tipping from a hand
The same slow second, same held breath
The same red turning where I stand
I lived this once when I was young
Before the gray, before the years
A word still waiting on my tongue
A step that never disappears

[Chorus]
She's going against the grain
Swimming upstream through the crowd
Everybody's moving one way
But she's turned around
Out of all these thousand faces
Something in me knows her name
And it's coming back to me
Against the grain

[Verse 3 - slower]
I never learned if she was mine
I never learned what she'd have said
I carried it through all that time
A single thread of burning red

[Bridge - slow, building]
Three steps
The whole world stops again
[spoken]
Two
[quietly]
It can't be her, she'd be gray like me
[whispered]
One...

[Outro - soft, layered harmonies]
She walks right past, as close as air
Toward a boy who's standing there
I see it in his face, the same
Twenty seconds against the grain
[Instrumental - major key, triumphant and victorious]
Maybe
Maybe
[End]

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