Subway Ride

Sheryl Crow

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

I was riding on the E-train
I was whistling to the rhythm
I was thinking about my live-in
I was feeling pretty fine
I asked the time
Got a poke in the eye

When I read the latest news
How we can't believe he wore those shoes
Should we have the man impeached
Or should we shoot him in the foot
Well you waste my time, you waste my time
Looking for two hundred ways to hang a guy

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Allegations, interrogations, investigations
Then more taxation
National past time is aggravation
I think I'll move out to a desert isle
Just for a while

To avoid all that's distracting
Like newspapers and magazines
Insipid propagandizing
To tell me what a loser I've elected
But you've neglected to tell the truth
That your politics is tied around his foot
And we too are dangling

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Do you think that we are crazy
Low I.Q., that we are lazy
That we sit here watching sitcoms
That we have no clue to what is going on
Well you got that wrong

Wait and see, the boom will fall
The morning eggs will hit the wall
And everyone I know will call
To say that change is hanging in the air
You'd best beware

Well you'll wake up and
Average Joe is in your chair
Just because he'd kinda
Like to do what's right
But more 'cause
All you politicians do is fight

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

I was riding on the e-train
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
I was seeing out a refrain
Doo doo doo doo


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    This is called Subway Ride, not Subway.

    collinhaion March 11, 2009   Link

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