Jesse Malin - Fine Art of Self Destruction (Anniversary Reissue)

Riding on the Subway

The Harlem mamas, they are laughing
They call me punk rock, think they're cute
The pizza boys, they keep on starin'
I guess they finally made it off their stoops

I don't even know and I don't even care
I don't even know and I don't even care
I don't even know and I don't even care, oh yeah

Since I've been hanging 'round
Machines go up and down
Spray paint gospel on the beat
Another billboard reads
"Come to Miami Beach"
A man sells pretzels in the heat
Riding on the subway

Saints and sinners, sweepstake winners
Nine to five their smoking gun
Jazzman Jimmy's busked a million
He sometimes plays Duke Ellington for fun

I don't even know and I don't even care
I don't even know and I don't even care
I don't even know and I don't even care, oh yeah
Oh yeah

Since I've been hanging 'round
In the underground
One day I saw you in your seat
Past the transit cops
A three-card monte box
If I only had the guts to speak
Riding on the subway

Mother told me yesterday
The things that God would never say before
We'll hang around the radio
And listen to the status quo go on
I'm all right until Sunday night when

I keep going down
Took the local route
A soul confession in my sleep
Ain't no wishing well
Underneath the L
I still hope someday we might meet
Riding on the subway
Riding on the subway

Credits
Writer(s): Jesse Malin
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link

Other Album Tracks

All Album Tracks: Fine Art of Self Destruction (Anniversary Reissue) >

Altri album

All Albums of Jesse Malin >

Rockol

Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.

Feedback

Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.