On That Note: In A Station

[MeanDean]

We're back to the freestyle topics on OTN this week. Thanks to all who posted on the Decade threads the last 3 weeks. Those threads can be found here:

Part 1 64 and 74
Part 2 84 and 94
Part 3 04 and 14

This week we are looking for locations/situations where a person would be awaiting transportation. Examples are Airport, Terminal, Train Station/Depot, Bus Station, Pier/Dock/Port, Bus Stop.

Being a location, or implying a location, is the topic. Not the mode of transportation or the waiting, per se.

Also allowed are songs with situations where it is obvious that someone is waiting for transportation. Hitchhiking is the obvious example of this, but there are songs where the specific location is not mentioned, but from the song, it is clear that the setting is one of those locations.

Your hosts for OTN are @cyclones500, @CycloneRulzzz and me.

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The Thread Title track

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Take the last train to Clarksville
And I'll meet you at the station
You can be here by 4:30
'Cause I've made your reservation

 

[MeanDean]

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

I'm sittin' in the railway station
Got a ticket to my destination

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Well we barely make the airport
For the last plane out

 

[MeanDean]

"The next Plane to London will be leaving in 5 minutes."

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane
Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane

 

[pourcyne]

Sitting downtown in a railway station

 

[MeanDean]

"Standing on the Turnpike, thumb out to hitch hike, take me to New York right away."

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends

 

[pourcyne]

When I left my home and my family
I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of a railway station

 

[cyclones500]

“Sittin’ down and waitin” for a ride.” (Bus, specifically)

 

[MeanDean]

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

 

[cyclones500]

“I’m lying here in the station, stretching out on the tracks / For all the possible places that I might arrive.”

—> I still hear the line a little differently: “I’m lying here in the station / and stretching out of the tracks / Are all the possible places that I might arrive.”

 

[pourcyne]

Gonna take a freight train
Down at the station, Lord
I don't care where it goes
Gonna climb a mountain
The highest mountain
Jump off, nobody gonna know

 

[cyclones500]

“Well, I’m sittin’ here beside the railroad track / And I’m waitin’ for that train to bring her back.”

 

[MeanDean]

 

[MuskieCy]

 

[pourcyne]

Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes