Lyrics to
Subway Song

This version of Subway Song was released by The Cure in 1979.

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Midnight in the subway
She’s on her way home
She tries hard not to run
But she feels she’s not alone
Echoes of footsteps
Follow close behind
But she dare not turn around

Turn around

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About Lyrics and Subway Song by The Cure

When you decide to study the lyrics to Subway Song, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by The Cure. Some of the lyrics to Subway Song have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Cure and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Subway Song if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Subway Song" means the words set to the music of Subway Song, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Cure. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Subway Song and the lyrics to Subway Song are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Cure who came here looking just for the lyrics to Subway Song, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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