Ready to go   The sky up   It's raining   Reading a book   On the downtown train   Easy enough   When the words are all plain      Off in the distance   ?? playing soprano   While a woman in white shoes   Off with the mouth   About heaven and hell   No one gives her the time      Crossing the bridge   On the Harlem line   People in shantees   Feel the train go by   The billboards overhead   Advertising high-rises   Build a better tomorrow today      The man next to me   And the woman one over   Are looking at a book   And those who aren't   Are staring at them   Cause the windows are dirty   And they're standing in the doorway   With their feet on facing chairs   And sleeping heads on shoulders      A girl is waiting   At the Fordham Station   Turns a page   As the sun parts the sky   The ground begins to dry      On the playground   I remember   The taste of metal   And bars in my hands   The ???