Trolley Car Lyrics - Ellis Paul

It's a snowy night, the cops shut down the freeway 

Big men in plows are out carving up the streets 

Below them, jammed on a subway, 

I'm with two hundred over-dressed strangers 

Brushing snow off coats and shoulders 

Kicking snow off dress shoe feet 

Chorus: 

You live six miles down this trolley car's trail 

Up above the red line, where the street musicians wail 

Where baby, we used to chase down coffee 

On the sidewalk take in tunes 

We'd drink in the waning hours 

Till we polished off the moon 

Who knew the moon would fail 

Above the trolley car trail 

"park street, next station" 

Says a voice with an accent I've heard 

And I see shoppers on the platform 

Where green and red lines diverge 

I fight my way through the packages and the bows 

To a pay phone, the operator knows 

She says to me, "your nervousness shows" 

I say, "'nervous' is too kind a word" 

Bridge: 

I think snowfall should be measured 

By how much it takes a city by surprise 

By how far back old timers go to remember 

The last time a blizzard stung their eyes 

Last time I rode a subway 

You had summer in your eyes 

You did