The last train is nearly due
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The underground is closing soon
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And in the dark deserted station
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Restless in anticipation
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A man waits in the shadows
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His restless eyes leap and scratch
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At all that they can touch or catch
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And hidden deep within his pocket
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Safe within its silent socket
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He holds a colored crayon
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Now from the tunnel's stony womb
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The carriage rides to meet the groom
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And open wide and welcome doors
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But he hesitates, and then withdraws
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Deeper in the shadows
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And the train is gone suddenly
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On wheels clicking silently
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Like a gently tapping litany
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And he holds his crayon rosary
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Tighter in his hand
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Now from his pocket quick he flashes
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The crayon on the wall he slashes
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Deep upon the advertising
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A single worded poem consisting
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Of four letters
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And his heart is laughing, screaming, pounding
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The poem across the tracks rebounding
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Shadowed by the exit light
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His legs take their ascending flight
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To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night
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A Poem On The Underground Wall (Live)
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| Simon & Garfunkel |
