[Intro][Twelve-string guitar begins alone. Organ and drums enter with a steady forward pulse; Mara raises Josef's open ledger.]

[Full Ensemble][Audience Call]
One berth!

[Audience Response]
Keep it lit!

[Full Ensemble]
One name!

[Audience Response]
Write it in!

[Verse 1][Mixed Ensemble]
The ledger lay open where Josef had pressed
A thumb beside stations all the way south.
Each column held mileage; the margins held people:
A baker, a student, a nurse heading out.
Mara wrote, "Berlin. Too tired to sleep."
Nico wrote, "Musician. Four euros this week."

[Pre-Chorus][Mixed Ensemble]
The binding was split and the paper rain-warped.
The book passed the window, the aisle and the dark.
One page still lay open. A passenger wrote,
Then passed it along through a row of damp coats.

[Chorus][Full Ensemble with Audience]
Keep the berths lit, keep a place on the train,
For the worker at midnight, the child in the rain.
Keep the berths lit when the last flight has gone,
For the ones who must travel from dusk into dawn.
Write why you are leaving, who waits by the track.
Keep the berths lit for the ones coming back.

[Verse 2][Mixed Ensemble]
A mother wrote, "Surgery. Ljubljana. Age eight."
His plastic dinosaur guarded the page.
A student wrote, "Exam," then slept on her case;
She woke with blue ink on the side of her face.
The night conductor waited, then added his line:
"Twelve years on this route. Home after sunrise."

[Pre-Chorus][Mixed Ensemble]
Coffee rings widened from margin to spine.
The wheels knocked each pen stroke away from the line.
One pencil broke; someone sharpened the end;
Each writer signed, then passed it to a friend.

[Chorus][Full Ensemble with Audience]
Keep the berths lit, keep a place on the train,
For the worker at midnight, the child in the rain.
Keep the berths lit when the last flight has gone,
For the ones who must travel from dusk into dawn.
Write why you are leaving, who waits by the track.
Keep the berths lit for the ones coming back.

[Guitar Solo][Two guitars trade compact phrases, then join on the whistle motif while the audience keeps a low chant.]

[Bridge][Mixed Ensemble]
The coach had straight seats and no room to lie,
Cold water went hand to hand through the night.
A small boy slept under two coats side by side;
His mother held one shoe till the morning light.

[Build-up][Call and Response]
[Full Ensemble]
Keep one light!
[Audience Response]
Keep one key!
[Full Ensemble]
Write one name!
[Audience Response]
Let it speak!
[Full Ensemble]
Turn one page!
[Audience Response]
Pass it on!
[Full Ensemble and Audience]
Keep it rolling till the morning comes!

[Final Chorus][Full Ensemble with Audience]
Keep the berths lit, keep a place on the train,
For the worker at midnight, the child in the rain.
Keep the berths lit when the last flight has gone,
For the ones who must travel from dusk into dawn.
Write why you are leaving, who waits by the track.
Keep the berths lit for the ones coming back.

[Post-Chorus][Full Ensemble]
Mara left it open; the page lay bare.
The pen crossed the aisle to a man in workwear.

[Outro][The ensemble repeats the title softly while organ sustains the completed motif.]

[Full Ensemble and Audience]
Keep the berths lit.
Keep the berths lit.
Pass the ledger on.
Keep the berths lit.

[Audience Applause][The chant remains under the opening guitar theme of the next song.]
