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Looks like lines orange red and blue
Will be closed for a long time to come
It’s mired in disrepair and gloom
It’s time for service interruptus
Those metro trains are down
Friendship Heights’s station’s closed
Looks like a nice spot to gather for a marshmallow roast

He says it’s the nation's best line of rail
Not that he’s ridden one since 1985
It’s what kids call an epic fail
Somehow riders make it out alive

How long’s it been unsafe?
Does it have a sound tax- base?
What does Mark Fisher say? What does Mark Fisher say?

You won’t see him too soon
On a metro train
Every track, every tunnel is in flames!
On a metro train

After Tom Waits's "Downtown Train"