Last Train Home

"Last Train Home" is the third track on Still Life (Talking), 5:41, an instrumental written by Metheny, recorded in March and April 1987 at the Power Station. Shearn says it is played on a Coral electric sitar, with Wertico on brushes and Rodby a steady bass pulse, and calls it one of Metheny's most famous and visually evocative melodies, with a melancholic glow all the way through. Metheny told WCBE in 2019 that it's a special one: for the first five years of his life his bedroom was five or ten yards from the main cross-country railroad track, he grew up with the sound of trains in his head, and trains represent a lot of the aspects of the Midwest and where he grew up.

It was used in a Publix supermarket commercial and as the closing theme of the Battle in Egypt arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders in 2015, and gave its name to the 2015 compilation Essential Collection: Last Train Home. Setlist.fm lists 32 performances on the Pat Metheny page, with group and solo songs combined; on March 22, 2026 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville it was part of a medley with "America the Beautiful" and "This Is Not America". It was in the Speaking of Now Live set in Tokyo in September 2002. First and last performance dates, charts, covers and samples were not found.