The Platform Is Meritocracy For Those Without Merit
                    
It's really starting to get stupid
Stupid and incredibly boring
The staff member has a superior air
And the hint of an irrepressible smile
And still the train won't come
They said something about trackwork
Or about driver shortages
Or was there an earlier incident-
Further down the line-
Elsewhere, somewhere
The station is quite impressive really
Old, from the late nineteenth century
We find anything from that era charming
That idea that progress could fix everything
Liberate people with exciting opportunities
There used to be a branch line here too
You can see where it goes off
Overgrown with trees now
Imagine a train going down there
The waiting room seems ridiculously oversized
For these days at least
I love the ornate features in there
I used to come here as a child
As a bored teenager with friends
We'd wait for the midnight Sydney-bound
The excitement of an escape out of here
Thinking of the big city's delights
I suppose we were pretty naive
Those dreams are long gone
And still this fucking train won't come