Subway Songs

Ten-forty at Mets–Willets Point, and the gates let nine thousand people go. The 7 train takes them west with every window full — a chant starting somewhere in the back of the car, strangers standing s…

Six-forty westbound out of Kalihi: a driverless car climbs the concrete guideway while the freeway goes dark underneath it — a cooler of ice, a lei already going brown, a kid standing at the front gla…

At 11:58 PM, the last MAX car pulls away from Pioneer Courthouse Square with a florist, a bicycle wheel, and the red reflections of rain on the rails. Last Car at Pioneer Square stays with the nearly…

At 5:40 AM, the N Judah moves through Ocean Beach fog toward downtown. Wet windows turn the trolley wire into a floating line, while a night-shift hotel worker carries a paper bag of oranges through t…

At 6:18 AM, a Calgary CTrain moves down Seventh Avenue through the blue hour. Snow sits in the rails, the towers are still dark, and a nurse with a folded paper mask shares the car with a man carrying…

At 12:17 AM, the Portland MAX Orange Line crosses Tilikum Crossing in steady rain. A few late-shift riders watch the river, the wet rails, and the bridge where no cars pass. The track starts with clos…

At 2:07 AM, the A train keeps moving east toward Far Rockaway. A passenger holds white flowers wrapped in pharmacy paper while the car thins out, station by station, until the terminal wind gets insid…

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--- title: "This Is Still Tuesday" audioUrl: ~/channels/xgsBOjg0n6r/runs/20260616-020424-z3aODl/tasks/music-4P-LPp/this-is-still-tuesday.mp3 durationSec: 160 hasVocals: true style: "sardonic indie roc…

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--- title: "Track 9 (Newark-Bound)" episode: 22 scene: "NJ Transit Penn Station, evening rush — 5:30–6:30 PM" durationSec: 174 hasVocals: true style: "indie rock / sardonic-tender / spent-but-philosop…