Railroad MP3: Part the Five

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末班車

主唱：蕭煌奇
作曲：李偉菘
填詞：馬嵩惟

空著手　猶如你來的時候
緊皺的額頭　終於再沒有苦痛
走得太累了　眼皮難免會沉重
你沒錯　是應該回家坐坐　

鳴笛聲　悄悄地刺進耳朵
這一次揮手　恐怕再沒機會問候
最後一遍了　換你躲進我雙肘
像靠在　曾搖動我的天空

別說話　淚水你別帶走
鏡子裡的我　已留下你　輪廓上的笑容
別回眸　末班車要開了
你不過先走　深愛是讓不捨離開的人　好好走

別牽掛　約好我們再見
散步的午後　要像從前　再挽著手敘舊
別逗留　末班車要開了
路到了盡頭　回頭是爲永留心口的人　好好走





On 5th of March, the brand spanking new E5 Hayabusa train debutted on the Tokyo to Shin-Aomori Shinkasen line. Barely a week later, the 3-11 double whammy of earthquake and tsunami put a halt to it.

On April 25, 45 days after the March 11 earthquake disaster, East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) restarted services on the Tohoku bullet train line between Tokyo and Sendai.

All that was left then, was the stretch between Sendai and Ichinoseki, in Iwate prefecture.
Shinkasen services on that stretch was restarted on the 29th, 49 days after the earthquake. With that, the Shinkasen services on the entire stretch of the Japanese archipalego, north from Shin-Aomori eki and south to Kagoshima
Chuo eki, were restarted.









The media attached great significance to this, as the re-openning of the line is a symbol of both Tohoku's and Japan's recovery from the disaster.

Sadly, some of the local lines hugging the coastline of the badly-hit towns and villages would have made their very last run on the afternoon of March 11.
They may never again be brought back into services, mainly because it is not commercially viable to do so.