Out of Service

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May I have your attention please BART passengers
For this elevator update
We currently have all station elevators in service
Thank you

I get off the train
I'm homeward bound
I've come a long way
Around the bay
Just to start a career

You were riding on the Richmond train
Spent your Saturday night at the bar
I was finding out the hard way
The trickiness of traveling without a car

I'm on the platform now
I'm upward bound
(Yeah I'm gonna elevate)
I'm not a stairs guy
I'm a half-off fares guy
It's part of the game
(Yeah you think it's hella great)

The perks don't always make it easy though
So you can tell the critics I'm not nervous
A half price discount's hardly consolation
When the platform elevator's out of service (Woah!)

Stuck in the middle of a staircase sandwich
Can't go up
Can't go down
I was riding on the northbound
It was the last train

Well there was one more train
One level down
But since the lift was out
I had my doubts about ever
Leaving at all that night

You were riding on the Richmond
The operators had no choice
But to turn your train around cause I was

Stuck in the middle of a staircase sandwich
Can't go up
Can't go down
I was learning how to live life
In the not-so-fast lane

So I get back on a new train
That's right, the one you're on
When they turned you around you had no clue
Why your stop had gone
What I remember happened next I won't forget
For a long time

When I first saw you you were combing your hair
With your one free hand
You were balancing a pizza box and a bag of Lay's
With a bottle of beer in a ripped up paper bag
It was precarious
When you first saw me I was kinda confused
'Cause I didn't know
The train they chose to use would be filled with
Literally hundreds of people
You thought I missed my train
And that I convinced them to come back
There's no time to explain
And you're quite drunk
And you're yelling at me
"Are they gonna hold the bus?
Are they gonna hold the bus?
Are they gonna hold the bus?
At EL CERRITO TOO?"

"Alright I got one more
Do you wanna bag of Lay's?
Do you wanna bag of Lay's? Ha!
Do you wanna bag of LAZE
I can sell Doritos too!"

No!
See I was
Stuck in the middle of a staircase sandwich
Couldn't go up
Couldn't go —
You know what no time cause

We're back at the new station now
Finally upward bound
(It's got a working elevator)
I'm going home
Yeah I'm free to roam
The whole city!
(I think I'll see you fellas later)
We were riding on the Richmond

I'm on the street now
At a different stop
But it's a different stop
So I'm two miles from home