Steel wheels sigh on frozen rail
Platform holds its breath at three
No passenger no final tale
Just iron lungs that breathe for me
The lamp still burns above the sea
Rusty freight car humming low
Singing songs the tunnels know
Wurlitzer waves on platform floor
Lighthouse light on subway shore
Iron hymn in undertow
Corroded ribs like whale bone white
Wurlitzer chords drift through the grate
No lantern swings in tunnel night
Just phosphorescence on the plate
The keeper counts each heavy freight
Rusty freight car humming low
Singing songs the tunnels know
Wurlitzer waves on platform floor
Lighthouse light on subway shore
Iron hymn in undertow
Thirty years on rocky coast
He trimmed the wick through gale and squall
Now subterranean ghosts
Answer to the platform's call
Same rhythm in the metal wall
Tape flanger spins the morning gray
Chorus guitar begins to sway
Warm plate reverb drinks the sound
Forgotten summers underground
Yellow cabs on asphalt rivers
Sirens wail like foghorns deep
City sleeps but never shivers
Promises it cannot keep
The freight car hums while world's asleep
Rusty freight car humming low
Singing songs the tunnels know
Wurlitzer waves on platform floor
Lighthouse light on subway shore
Iron hymn in undertow
First light bleeds through grating slots
Steel wheels wake from dreaming slow
Keeper tends his tethered knots
Another shift begins below
Iron lullaby lets go
Rusty freight car humming low
Singing songs the tunnels know
Wurlitzer waves on platform floor
Lighthouse light on subway shore
Iron lullaby lets go
Lamp still burns at 3 AM
Humming low humming low
