Subway

Subway – Mary Lou Lord

Album: Got No Shadow

Original Tab by Chris Walker

Capo on 2nd.

Bm Em7 C G

Bm Em7 C G

There's no sun and no starlight to shine on the rails

Bm Em7 C G

The spray painted words of the prophets have failed

Bm Em7 C G

Down in this tunnel there's no day or night

Cadd9 Bm C

Up above is it darkness or light

Bm Em7 C G

It's all just a dream I wake up and I'm back

Bm Em7 C G

Where the wheels of reality screech down the track

Bm Em7 C G

The ride is the moment they're all waiting for

Cadd9 Bm C

Can't afford to believe that there's more

Em Bm C

I can't kid myself into thinking there's more

Bm Em7 C G

And he lives in the suburbs and he carries a phone

Bm Em7 C G

I watch him arrive and I'll watch him go home

Bm Em7 C G

He'll pitch me a quarter as he stops to change lines

Cadd9 Bm C

He'd stay but he never has time

Em Bm C

Would he stay if he ever had time

D C G

So hold my eye

D C G

While the rest of the city flies by

D C C/C/G/Bb G

And the tips and the tokens you left me today

G Bm C

Are the price of my ride on the subway

Bm Em7 C G

And I've seen drowning hobos and rich men who pass

Bm Em7 C G

Reflected in fragments of Boston bound glass

Bm Em7 C G

And I'll be Jimmie Rodgers, The Cure or The Who

Cadd9 Bm C

If it makes any difference to you

Em Bm C

Does it make any difference to you

D C G

So hold my eye

D C G

While the rest of the city flies by

D C C/C/G/Bb G

And the tips and the tokens you left me today

G Bm C

Are the price of my ride on the subway

G Bm C

They’re the price of my ride on the subway

G Bm C

They’re the price of my ride on the subway

(Mary Lou Lord, Nick Saloman)