Robert Byrne - Subway Man lyrics

He's getting on the subway and he finds himself a seat He's going up 100 and 25th Street There's no one around him He's just one of the guys He's working on the night shift and he closes his eyes Chorus: How you doing, subway man? What you thinking riding alone? Where you going, subway man? Are you going on home? Well, when he was a young boy, he dreamed all the time The world was to conquer the mountains to climb But now he's forgotten how high was the sky He gets on the subway and he closes his eyes Repeat Chorus He don't see the papers that lit on the floor He don't see the cushions of old broken straws Fan turning slowly; the station is in miles Through miles and miles and nothing and he closes his eyes His morning and his evenings, each day is like the last His wife is home waiting; she's forgotten the past She'll know he stopped dreaming, changing their lives But what does she see when she looks in his eyes? He's a king of subway man Walking through the dreams I've flown Dreams that - oh, no Subway man, are you going on home, going on home? Repeat Chorus Are you going on home? Are you going on home?