you don't need much money to ride the silver train

just enough to keep yourself from sleeping in the rain

satellites are chasing silver clouds away and

technicolor raindrops wash gumballs down the drain



gonna leave the city, gonna hop a train tonight

gotta one-way ticket and the moon is shining bright

gonna leave the city, gonna catch the Hudson Line

'cause you know I love the city but I haven't got the time



satellites are chasing the silver clouds away

mercury's are falling, yeah, who forgot to pray

silver trains will whistle and glisten by the moon

Molly has her kite and Joe has his balloons

satellites are chasing silver clouds away

I'm stuck on the tracks to sleep away the day



gonna leave the city, gonna hop a train tonight

gotta one-way ticket and the moon is shining bright

gonna leave the city, gonna catch the Hudson Line

'cause you know I love the city but I haven't got the time