I can still remember the day I got the postcard from Canaan
saying everything that I've been wishing for is waiting
and I said “I guess I got a trip to plan”
Oh but it's been five years since, I still ain't got plane fare
and my friends say it ain't that far, but you know
it's a whole lot longer when nobody knows the way

Now I ain't too keen on trusting the buses to run on time
and the easy street line cuts out before it hits 69th avenue
I might catch the southbound out this afternoon
and it cannot come too soon

Oh if people only brought a song to light the way
the pain would be much easier to bear
it's just that people don't have ears to hear
it's not that they don't care
but I know that begging for my fare
on planes and trains and taxicabs will never get me there

Sometimes just looking out the window make it look so far to me
though being a passenger just ain't that hard to be
and a stranger said “I used to say the same when she was by my side”
You see, I thought we had the same destination in mind
and she's planning on staying on 'til the end of the line
so I figured I could let my heart be my guide

but by the time our story was over and finished
I wished that I could teach my intuition how to speak some damn English
and maybe let me know what went wrong,
or where I lost her along the way

'cause if i'da know that it was my train, babe I woulda run faster
if i'da known you wanted more love I woulda asked you
why is it even when I'm here you feel alone
but I know she can't see past her pile of baggage
and I ain't got the heart to chase her after all this jet lag
I guess I better take my taxi home

Oh if half the plans we had while sitting around in traffic jams
were put to work, just think of how the world might be?
I can't remember half the things I learned, still somehow I know I've changed
ain't that strange, how once you've paid your fare
the planes and trains and cabs they somehow get you there?

I guess sometimes you got to get your own answers
instead of getting where you're going taking all the free transfers
'cause if you're on the public system you'll only get the run around

They say that nothing is certain in life
and I know it like the back of my hand
but I've have my ticket now, if I had a bit in the pan
for every accident that worked out better than my plans
I'm so glad I didn't wait for the Priceline to be fair
'cause now I know like never before
it's gonna take something so much more than
planes and trains and taxicabs to get me there