Subway Train
Composer(s): Johnny Thunders - David Johansen
First release by: New York Dolls - 1973
Covered by multiple other artists



I can't ever
Understand
Why my lifes, been
Cursed poisen
Condemned
When I been tryin' every night
To hold ya near me
But I'm tellin' you
It aint easy 

Ever since I been 
Ridin', right on the 
Subway Train
You can hear the whistle blowin'
Ya might think I'm goin' insane 

And now your friends
They're fillin' up my car
But your so busy readin' Suzy says
Ya can't look now
You didn't see your lovers
There all just in rags
Ya know ya hid as pushin' up posies
Tryin' get ya fed 

We was all
Ridin', right on the 
Subway Train
And you can hear the captain shoutin'
He thinks I've gone insane 

Cus I keep
Ridin, keep on
Ridin, cus I keep on
Ridin ridin' ridin', keep on 
Ridin', yeah 

You stop and you stare
As I'm leavin' my favorite place
We have no regards
Ya can't find a trace
Ya gotta get on back to daddy
That's all it's gonna be
He got the poison black arts of the pimps
But don't ya st- st- 

I seen em travelin'
Right on the
Subway Train
Ya can hear the captain shou-ow-tin
He thinks we've all gone insane 

Cus we keep on
Ridin' ridin' ridin'
Ridin', cus we keep
Ridin' ridin' ridin'
Keep on ridin'

I think I see the train
I see ya got open track
I'm hopin'
One of those gonna bring my baby back 

(Cus I guess I said)
Dinah won'tcha blow
Dinah won'tcha blow your horn
Dinah won'tcha blow
Dinah won'tcha blow your horn 
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
I know whoa whoa whoa
I said someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
I know 

I keep on 
Ridin' ridin' ridin'