State of Transit Songtext
von The Herd

You smile to yourself as you ride past the panel beaters
New piece since last night
Early morning on the bike
Eight hours in the shop most days of the week
Maintaining food on your plate and your place in the street
Keep one eye on the clock until you′re ready to bail
Learnt long ago never to rely on CityRail
When you ride the Sydney system you're up there with the best
Y′all laughing out loud at that ridiculousness
Pass the park with the Tai Chi stretching yoga heads
And the people with the bottles and the benches for beds
Health for leather down crown hold your breath at the lights
Keep monoxide from your lungs and keep it fresh for the might
Band practice tonight to try and keep the set tight
But before then spend time with the love of your life
Got priorities right, maintaining love with respect
There's a thousand roads to travel but you know your direction


Same line, same day all on the same track
We cross paths but barely interact
You got no time to chitchat you got a schedule to keep
Shooting straight across the city and your dodging the sheep
It's the same line, same day, all on the same track
We cross paths but barely interact
One more 24 hour stretch
From daylight to dusk and dusk down to desk

Waiting for the 428 ragged old suit, briefcase, looks much older than his age
Like to catch the bus home not concerned by the traffic and the lights the ticket price hikes
Kinda like the bus, no one talks that much
Keep the conversation hush, the city′s pretty at dusk.
And most faces are expressionless, pressing the bell
While peak hour breeds perfume that you just can′t sell
From Central (woah) up to Kings Street
Window washers hustle all the cars, the bus driver just looks and laughs
I pass pools and parks and pass people by
He's content never meeting with the reason why
You have a cold yet comfortable welcome at home
A little bachelor pad a gold fish and a phone
Where he′ll go back to sleep, dream and wake up at eight, get prepared, catch the bus back to work again


It's like same line, same day, all on the same track
We cross paths but barely interact
One more 24 hour stretch
From daylight to dusk and dusk down to desk
Same line, same day, all on the same track
We cross paths but barely interact
It′s all I ask of this complex town
Share a tale or two and watch the sun go down

The sun sets so fast, I didn't see it happen
Like I look back on days just to see the patterns
See the way last rays of the day is scattered
It′s such a different way to when I first sat here (another beer)
You know the more some things change, the more some things are bound to stay the same
It's a shame 'bout those units across the street though, we used to get that much more light in the arvo
Still, it′s a good place to sit for a while even if these days I don′t quite fit the style
It's the people I come here for though not the decor
And they don′t seem to think of me as too much of an old bore
I used to live just round the corner, but then the rent got too dear, so I moved from here
Still it's not so far and to just come for a beer 
I′m not a local, but I'm still a local here

Same line, same day, all on the same track
We cross paths but barely interact
You got no time to chitchat you′ve got a schedule to keep
Shooting straight across the city and you're dodging the sheep
Same line, same day, all on the same track
We cross paths but barely interact
It's all I ask of this complex town
Share a tale or two and watch the sun go down