[Intro][Floor toms enter like footsteps on wet concrete. Band members pass empty cases hand to hand across the stage; the audience picks up the rhythm.]

[Male Lead Vocal][Audience Call]
Cases from heavy to light!

[Audience Response]
Pass them down!

[Full Ensemble]
Count every label. Keep the walkway clear.

[Verse 1][Mixed Ensemble]
Platform Four at 2:13,
Cold coffee machine and a red signal beam.
Our sleeper stood beyond a wire gate;
The board added twenty, then forty, then late.
A child started crying; an old woman swore.
Porters ran cases from carriage to door.
The speaker's clipped answers were lost in the roar.

[Pre-Chorus][Mixed Ensemble]
Mara took cases, both heavy and light.
Josef read labels and kept the rows right.
Nico raised his guitar; the father took two.
Three rows of cases left one passage through.

[Chorus][Full Ensemble with Audience]
Platform Four at 2:13,
Pass each case; keep the walkway clean.
At 2:13 on Platform Four,
No bed in the carriage; no one waits by the door.
Hand after hand, from the old to the young,
We move what we carry, then carry it on.

[Verse 2][Mixed Ensemble]
One coach had six seats and a window jammed tight;
Another smelled of brake dust and rain in the night.
Elena made room for a mother and son,
Then stood in the aisle when the last place was gone.
The father folded a blanket beneath someone's head.
Nico played softly while two children slept.
Josef wrote names on the back of a sheet,
Then checked every face as they moved to their seats.

[Pre-Chorus][Mixed Ensemble]
The signal stayed scarlet; the rain turned to sleet.
Somebody started with a tap of their feet.
The Berlin workshop caught hold of the sound,
Four hundred hands sent the rhythm around.

[Chorus][Full Ensemble with Audience]
Platform Four at 2:13,
Pass each case; keep the walkway clean.
At 2:13 on Platform Four,
No bed in the carriage; no one waits by the door.
Hand after hand, from the old to the young,
We move what we carry, then carry it on.

[Drum Break][The audience and drums trade the luggage-passing rhythm through four increasingly loud cycles.]

[Verse 3][Mixed Ensemble]
A railway supervisor unlocked one more door:
"Coach Seven. Standing room south from Track Four."
No beds, only benches, but clearance to leave.
We boarded by number, then boarded by need,
Gave corners to elders and children the seats.
At three-ten the doors shut; the brakes were released.

[Bridge][Mixed Ensemble]
Grease crossed our sleeves; rope scored every hand.
Each case lost some weight as we formed up a chain.
The green lamp blinked once; wet concrete slid back.
We passed one another from platform to track.

[Final Chorus][Full Ensemble with Audience]
Platform Four at 2:13,
Pass each case; keep the walkway clean.
At 2:13 on Platform Four,
No bed in the carriage; no one waits by the door.
Hand after hand, from the old to the young,
We move what we carry, then carry it on.

[Post-Chorus][Call and Response]
[Full Ensemble]
Red turned to green!
[Audience Response]
Pass it along!
[Full Ensemble]
Every case, every name!
[Audience Response]
Carry it on!

[Outro][Hammond organ holds a major chord as the train accelerates. The crowd continues the hand-to-hand rhythm.]

[Mixed Ensemble]
Steel answered steel.
Rain left the glass.

[Audience Applause][The rhythm slows into a dark 6/8 pulse.]
