Brooklyn Train

Written by：Lucy Kaplansky/Rick Litvin/Ben Wittman

I'm a rider of the city

On this Brooklyn train

Held by the crowd

Face to face

Freeze frames in time

Move through me

Moments in life I

Won't again see

A pack of kids gets on board

Loud and laughing

They rule the car

Non stop rhythm of

Words and speed

The sound of the young

The sound of the city

Down below on iron veins

Rolling waves of subway trains

Rails of mercy

Cross the lives of men

Safe in the body of

New York again

Asian men selling

Firetrucks and flags

The mixed up voices

Of a duop band

Sailors and whites

Dance and sing

Beneath the streets

Part of everything

A family just arrived from JFK

A couple of boys

Another on the way

A mother is watching

Remembers her son

Buys some firetrucks

Gives each of them one

Down below on iron veins

Rolling waves of subway trains

Rails of mercy

Cross the lives of men

Safe in the body of

New York again

Amid all these others

It's myself I see

And the thread that

Connect these faces to me

And those who rode these

Rails before me

And the others who'll ride this

Train after me

Williamsburg bridge

Sun hits the train as

It rises over the city again

Nobody speaks

Everyone stares

Remembering all that

Used to be there

And only the living

Know what loss means

Riding together on this

Morning train

Down below on iron veins

Rolling waves of subway trains

Rails of mercy

Cross the lives of men

Safe in the body of

New York again

Safe in the body of

New York again