She gets up at the dawning, gets the kids ready for school - feeds the cat and the dog and the doorbell rings
It’s another bill collector, trying to take everything
But she can’t let that happen, so she’s flying out the door
Going to work in the garden, of someone else’s soul
She needs to catch that line, she needs to catch that line.
She needs to catch that line
Five o’clock riser, on that downtown line
Five o’clock riser, on that downtown line
His alarm goes off at 4:45, hits the snooze and he’s up by five
But the sun is down and night is coming on,
she ain’t home yet and he has to be gone
to make the swing shift at the six-thirty call
And he’s lucky to have any job at all
And he needs to catch that line, he needs to catch hat line,
he needs to catch that line
Five o’clock riser, on that downtown line
Five o’clock riser, on that downtown line
Now they look out their windows and turn in their seats –
And as they pass in the evening they wave to each other from across the street
And that moment in time is the most precious of things
It fills them with hope, it fills them with dreams
She’s going uptown, he’s going down –
They’re both riding that line
She’s going uptown, he’s going down –
The that’s just life ridin’, ridin’ that line
Five o’clock riser, on that downtown line
She’s going uptown, he’s going down –
The that’s just life ridin’, ridin’ that line
Five o’clock riser, on that downtown line

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