Subway Blues
(A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Urban Mass Transit Systems)
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Rattled windows are my neighborhood
Dirty streets and the water's no good
I woke up on the subway today
Drinking my coffee on the subway today
I'm going home on the subway today
I'm all alone on the subway today
Going home all alone
I'm going home on the subway today
Smell of stale sweat is worse every day
Screaming brakes on an old steel rail
I went to work on the subway today
Homework and dreams on the subway today
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The freeway sliced our city in half
Subway tracks are gonna sew it back
I had my lunch on the subway today
My life will sing on the subway today
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Clitter clatter clitter clatter click and chug and chitter chatter
I'm going home on the subway today
I'm all alone on the subway today
Clitter clatter clitter clatter
I'm going home today
I'm going home
1/25/22
© Huw Powell
printed 30 April 2025file location: www.humanthoughts.org/subway_blues.htm
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