The Subway Tabulatur von Nick Blaemire

E
Riding on the subway
Hanging out and breathing underground
E/B
Blame it on the subway
Couldn't get reception while I was rumbling around
E                                            Amin7
Tumbling and fumbling, mumbling and crumbling down
                Amin6
At the speed of sound, inbound

E
Sitting on the subway
Odd body odors from the bystanders who stand
E/B
Staring on the subway
Lots of different names forced into the same land
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As the panhandlers handle their pans

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And I don't know the reason why I stay
 F#m7          F#7
I never get anywhere anyway
A    B
On the subway

Bing bong!

E
Waiting on the subway
Clock is ticking quicker than it usually does
E/B
Hating on the subway
Like it's sitting pretty in the tunnel just because
Amin7
It wants to make me cry
               Amin6
Or in the summer, melt me 'til I'm dry
A       B
Oh, why?

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And I don't know the reason why I stay
 F#m7          F#7
But I'm still held hostage by the MTA
  Cmin7
On the subway...

Dmin7
Upstairs, up there
Emin7
Everything's going fine
Cmin7
You'd never know that I'm down below
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And never gonna be on time
Emin7
It's just a bunch of circles
Pretending to be lines...

E
[pause, frustrated sigh]

E
Living on the subway
Rushing to whatever tribulation might be next
E/B
Giving on the subway
All the out-of-towners on vacation seem perplexed
A
As the B-Boys dance in their baggy pants
And their tinny homemade beats (wicky wicky!)
And the old ladies who miss their Mercedes still gyrate in their seats
And the B-Boys tip their hats for tips
And then rinse and repeat

F#min7
And it's actually kinda sweet
A
Who knows who you might meet
B
Hundreds of feet beneath the street

 A                                 E
And I don't know the reason why I stay...
 F#m7          F#7
But I'd pick stressful over boring any day!
 A  B  E
On the subway