| When you’re dying on the platform from the heat and the smoke
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| And the skinny girl from Teaneck thinks it’s all some kinda joke
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| Waiting on the «G» train and the AC is broke
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| But thank god for the F train
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| Some people ride to work some people ride to war
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| Some people got no idea what they’re riding for
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| Some people get on board just because they shut the door
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| But thank god for the F train
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| It might be raining on the surface, coming down in sheets
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| Forget the car service, nothing’s moving on the streets
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| You gotta get to mid town and there’s no service on your phone?
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| Well get yourself a ticket and join the underground
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| There’s a drummer down in Chelsea trying to get to union hall
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| There’s a real estate broker trying to make that conference call
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| There’s a guy sellin' umbrellas before the prices fall
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| They all thank god for the F train
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| There’s a politician out hustling up some votes
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| There’s a statistician counting up some goats
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| Me, I’m wondering what those girls are hiding in their coats
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| And here comes the river, you think this baby floats?
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| You can thank old Ronald Reagan for screwing up the skies
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| And you can thank the boys at NORML for tryin' to decriminalize
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| And you can thank that place in Redhook for those fine key-lime pies
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| But thank god for the F train |