[Verse 1: Gospel-rock female lead, strong and low over pounding drums] Six-fifteen on the uptown and the car is packed to the door Eighty strangers, eighty phones, nobody lookin' up no more Then the lights blink once, blink twice, and the whole car goes black And the train lets out a groan and settles somewhere down the line Forty minutes in the tunnel and the heat is closin' in Baby screamin' by the doors and no one knows where to begin So I open up my mouth, I don't know what else to do And the first note hits the ceiling and it shakes the whole car through [Hook: Gospel-rock female lead, huge drums, roaring organ, overdriven guitars] We were stuck between stations, every signal in the car was gone So I sang into the static, come on, till the whole car sang along Hallelujah underground, eighty voices lift the ground Stuck between two stations till we tuned into the sound [Verse 2: Gospel-rock female lead, rising, organ swelling] First the man with the briefcase started hummin' under me Then the kid with the headphones pulled 'em down and found the key Then the lady with the shoppin' and the baby in her arms And the baby quit her cryin' like the song was some kind of charm Nurse from Brooklyn on the high part, cab man from the Bronx down low Eighty strangers in a sardine can and every one aglow Nobody knew the words, so we just made 'em up as we went Every chorus got a little louder and the dark got a little bent [Hook: Gospel-rock female lead, huge drums, roaring organ, overdriven guitars] We were stuck between stations, every signal in the car was gone So I sang into the static, come on, till the whole car sang along Hallelujah underground, eighty voices lift the ground Stuck between two stations till we tuned into the sound [Bridge: Gospel-rock female lead, drums pounding harder, everything building in the dark] Hold on, hold on, I can hear it in the rail Somethin' hummin' down the tunnel like a wind inside a sail Hold on, hold on, keep singin' through the black Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes back [Final Hook: Gospel-rock female lead, power surge, the car lights and the full band crash back in on the same beat] We were stuck between stations, every signal in the car was gone So I sang into the static, come on, till the whole car sang along Hallelujah underground, eighty voices lift the ground Stuck between two stations till we tuned into the sound [Outro: Gospel-rock female lead, full band ringing out] Next stop, doors open wide Nobody moved, nobody stepped outside Sing it one more station Hallelujah [End]
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