Lady with the trenchcoat on perhaps getting ready to go over the top or maybe she's just preparing to get off at the upcoming stop

Hoodies everywhere I look
some staring at the ceiling
but he's reading a book,

and it's called,
How to escape from reality
I'd really like to read that too.

Children get on at Bethnal Green
a bit early I think for school,

but it's a normal start on the underground
people bound to routine
except for the kids from Bethnal Green
they have yet to learn.