Mind the delay

Alarm goes off, I’m out the door, Platform packed like the day before. Board says “On time” — we all laugh, of course, ’Cause engineering works have claimed the tracks by force. A tannoy crackles with that weary tone, “Service suspended… please find another zone.” I check my ticket price and nearly c***e — How’s it gone up again? It must be some kind of joke. [Chorus] Mind the delay, mind the cost, Mind the hours of your morning lost. Signal faults and overhead wires, Track defects and commuter ire. We shuffle on, we shuffle through, ’Cause what else can a Brit commuter do? Mind the delay, mind the pain — Welcome to another day on the train. [Verse 2] Replacement bus? Oh, splendid news — A magical tour of towns I didn’t choose. We crawl through villages I’ve never seen, While my boss asks where on earth I’ve been. The guard shrugs softly, “It’s out of our hands,” As we drift through fields instead of city plans. I scroll the fares — they’ve climbed again, Paying champagne prices for a tin-can train. [Chorus] Mind the delay, mind the cost, Mind the hours of your morning lost. Signal faults and overhead wires, Track defects and commuter ire. We shuffle on, we shuffle through, ’Cause what else can a Brit commuter do? Mind the delay, mind the pain — Welcome to another day on the train. [Bridge] One day they’ll fix it, or so they claim, But we’ve heard that line since the steam-train age. Still we queue, still we hope, still we tap our cards, ’Cause giving up commuting feels just as hard. [Final Chorus] Mind the delay, mind the cost, Mind the sanity you’ve slowly lost. Diversions long and patience thin, Yet somehow we all still pile in. We sigh, we joke, we all complain — But tomorrow we’ll be back again. Mind the delay, mind the pain — Another great British day on the train.