Friendship Heights Metro Station and Related Proposal for Alignment Adjustments to the Purple Line (for WMATA)

Lyrics

You were playing Brighten the Corners In the mall overhead But we never talked So I never said That I found you impressive I never saw you again But I'm reminded a lot When the doors chime open At my favorite stop Or a song from that album Plays on my headphones And 20 years later When I yell into The empty void Between the ground And Tenleytown Metro And I hear my words Returned in a Swedish accеnt And 30 years later When I yеll again My voice is blurred And hides my careful Choice of words And my shouting turns to birdsong Which turns into the air raid sirens We were under attack With the metal on the stereo And guns at our backs And our shoes full of quicksand Ran through the tunnels shouting "FOOD NOT BOMBS" At the flickering lights From the Quaker architecture Over Friendship Heights And a choir singing shape note And 40 years later I still yell a lot I'm still annoyed They routed wrong And that's their choice But cost per mile is not a sacred metric And 100 years later When I yell again For one last time The song you played Still on my mind And badly routed trains collide From Bethesda to the other side Connection Silver Spring Bethesda Cathedral Connection Silver Spring