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Friendship Heights
02:50
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Friendship Heights
(Levine/Mendelson/McNeill/Rolleston)
I saw an ad in the Post
Man those shoes they were the most
I’m going to Friendship
I need a use for my loot
Like a nice Armani suit
I’m going to Friendship
Friendship Heights, the Mazza Gallerie calls
Friendship Heights, forsake all other malls
It’s boring here in D.C.
I need some retail therapy
Let’s go to Friendship
You know it don’t mean a thing
Unless you got that Gucci bling
Let’s go to Friendship
Friendship Heights, the Mazza Gallerie calls
Friendship Heights, forsake all other malls
Shop like Fifth Avenue, feel like a star
Try to remember where I parked my car
Cuff links and tie tack, I’m dressed to the nines
They’re towing my Lexus
I think I must have enough
My card got maxed out on this stuff
I’m stuck at Friendship
I called my mom for a ride
It’s getting way too cold outside
I’m stuck at Friendship
Friendship Heights, I thought I had it made
Friendship Heights, just wait til I get paid
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Union Station
06:22
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Union Station
(Mendelson)
Sky broken by the rising sun
Shine a light and interrupt the dawn
No use looking ‘round here for me
Cause by the time morning come
You call my name but I’ll be gone
You’re not the same you used to be
You’re like that runaway train on track 16
Completely out of control
Still building steam
You’re an unstoppable force
But I‘m a movable man
And by Union Station I’ll be free
I can’t watch you do this no more
Try to pick yourself up off the floor
Just to crash right through the basement
I got the feeling that you won’t get mad
Grab a bottle maybe call your dad
He can tell you what a fool you’ve been
Just like that runaway train on track 16
That Pennsy Federal Express
Worst thing we’d seen
You’re an unstoppable force
But I’m a movable man
And by Union Station I’ll be free
Watch out for this iron horse
Notify the tower and clear the concourse
Abuse your body, you abuse your soul
The life you’re livin’s gonna take its toll
You say you want another chance
You realize you’re living way too fast
I think you must have me mistaken
You think I’m the forgiving kind
But I’ve already done my time
This train’s already left the station
Just like that runaway train on track 16
That Pennsy Federal Express
Worst thing we’d seen
You’re like that runaway train on track 16
Completely out of control
Still building steam
You’re an unstoppable force
But I’m a movable man
And by Union Station I’ll be free
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Strathmore
02:38
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Strathmore
(Andary/Curtin/Mendelson)
When I look out
Cast of thousands
Wish that one face
I might see
In 1965 I knew a girl who played guitar
She got famous and moved to L.A.
I’ve imagined
Moving in here
Sculpture garden
At my feet
Say hello to the girl with the flowers in her hair
She’s a long way from San Francisco
Every now and then she plays a show here in D.C.
I think this time I just might attend
Hold my breath to
Listen closely
Were you calling
After me?
Say hello to the girl with the flowers in her hair
She’s a long way from San Francisco
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Deanwood
03:24
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Deanwood
(Levine/McNeill/Mendelson/Rolleston/Taronji)
Walking down Hayes where lights are new
49th Place has got ‘em too
Never did the future seem so bright
Papa rained down his broken soul
A child, I resist his grim control
I see nothing but a cruel, peculiar king
Up to the Howard to see the Duke
Back on the corner Ella’s on the juke
But mama saved me by helping me to sing
High school where it all began
Watts Branch where I joined the band
It’s time to be leaving home
Deanwood still misses you
Home from the service back on my street
I hate washing dishes to make ends meet
But I found a big break working with Bo
I got a new song to make me a star
Mar-Keys, gonna go so far
More then Okeh, next stop Chicago
Deanwood still misses you
Driving down Burroughs and passing the park
Inner city blues so vivid and stark
Deanwood still misses you
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Bethesda
03:51
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Bethesda
(Levine/Mendelson/Tucker)
When Bethesda wakes up in the morning
All the guilt melts away in the sun
Jealous lovers forget what they started
Lonely women forget what they’ve done
William still overseas for the White House
Lisa wonders how long she can stay
Katie’s swimming some laps in the moonlight
All in all it’s an average day
In the chaos there’s a calm unbroken silence
Strangers passing in the crowd
A quiet blindness
And they find their way home
In the offices people are dying
When they no longer care how they live
Marking time as they go through the motions
All receiving much more than they give
Many ways to construct many buildings
This foundation may soon wash away
Come together let’s start this thing over
All in all it’s no average day
In the structure there’s a calm unbroken silence
Strangers passing in the crowd
A quiet blindness
And they find their way home
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West Hyattsville
04:38
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West Hyattsville
(Levine/Mendelson/Rolleston/Taronji)
I see in the distance
Redcoats approach getting pretty close
Look at other soldiers
We’re not sure how many will return
Today the river flows to bring us war
Bladensburg, the British burn
Haven’t fired this old shotgun
Since my dad took us hunting squirrels
I pray to the heavens
With so much rust and dirt
Let it please still work
If we fail and the city burns
Don’t close your eyes
Load your gun but turn and run
No one dies
Your very own private hell
The War of 1812
Your very own private hell
Bladensburg still fell
My shame is a shared one
Such a pathetic defeat
Last line retreat
What’s the point in surviving
Just to see your town burnt to the ground
Your very own private hell
The War of 1812
Bladensburg still fell
Your very own private hell
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Farragut West
03:32
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Farragut West
(McNeill/Mendelson/Taronji)
This is the truth about last Friday
You’re not so crazy after all
I’ve been avoiding this for weeks now
I’m not so careless after all
No octagon or square could hold us
That isn’t what I’d call our best
FDIC you at the Blackfinn
So I get off Farragut West
Pretending I thought you said somewhere else to meet
But K is a two-way street
And if I can’t tell the truth
Then I don’t deserve you anyway
It takes a lot of light to see here
It’s not exactly wasted time
No pylon told me how to find you
Blisters and signs all work just fine
Pretending I thought you said somewhere else to meet
But K is a two-way street
So if I can’t tell the truth
Then I don’t deserve you anyway
This is the truth about my crazy
I’m not so Friday after all
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Minnesota Avenue
02:55
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Minnesota Avenue
(Levine/McNeill/Mendelson/Rolleston/Taronji/Tucker)
She told a story
how her parents left familiar roads behind
over ocean, over plain
the whistle of the train
past Lake Superior’s shore
to their new home
Minnesota, Minnesota
You make your place
You find your way
Minnesota, Minnesota
You may have left but something stays
I hear her story
As I see the only place I’ve ever known
Cross a bridge of rusty steel
The clacking of the wheels past Anacostia’s shore
I’m almost home
Minnesota, Minnesota
You make your place
you find your way
Minnesota, Minnesota
You may have left but something stays
The stops go by
I think of a place I haven’t seen
What if I left my city streets
Would I adapt or freeze?
Or do I stay and dream
Of frozen lakes and streams
far as eyes can see
Minnesota, Minnesota
You make your place
You find your way
Minnesota, Minnesota
I may have left but something stays
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Brookland
05:28
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Brookland
(Mendelson)
Valerie carefully reflected
Pointing her lens
Framing the shot
With palm trees
But when a car backfired
She lost track of the butterfly
So much for the perfect outdoor day
She needed peace
Not the rat race
Everyone can see it
But no one really understands
A thousand miles away from Brookland
Valerie thoughtfully inspected
Aspects of her entire life
She was so assured of
And in a quiet place
With nuns and monks
It was clear what she had to do
Gladly leave it all behind
She needed peace
Not the rat race
Everyone can see it but no one really understands
A thousand miles away at Brookland
In the garden it all came down to this
She had a fascinating vision there
Giving her life in service for
All the people who needed it the most
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Jason Mendelson Washington, D.C.
Multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Jason Mendelson of Alexandria, Virginia created MetroSongs in 2010 with the goal of writing and recording a unique original song for each of the DC area's 91 Metro station locations, based on local history and character. The project was completed in April 2017 with Volumes 7 & 8. ... more
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