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The distant echo of far away voices boarding far away trains |
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To take them home to the ones that they love and who love them forever |
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The glazed, dirty steps, repeat my own and reflect my thoughts |
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Cold and uninviting, partially naked, except for toffee wrappers |
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And this morning's papers, Mr. Jones got run down |
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Headlines of death and sorrow, they tell of tomorrow |
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Madmen on the rampage, and I'm down in the tube station at midnight |
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I fumble for change, and pull out the Queen, smiling, beguiling |
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I put in the money and pull out a plum, behind me |
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Whispers in the shadows, gruff blazing voices, hating, waiting |
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Hey boy, they shout, have you got any money? |
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But I say, I've a little money and a take away curry |
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I'm on the way home to my wife, she'll be lining up the cutlery |
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And now she's expecting me |
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Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork |
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And I'm down in the tube station at midnight |
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I first felt a fist, and then a kick, I could now smell their breath |
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They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs |
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And too many right wing meetings, my life swam around me |
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It took a look and drowned me in its own existence |
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The smell of brown leather, it blended in with the weather |
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It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth |
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It blocked all my senses, couldn't see, hear, speak any longer |
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I'm down in the tube station at midnight |
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I said, "I was down in the tube station at midnight" Hey |
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The last thing that I saw as I lay there on the floor |
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Was 'Jesus Saves' painted by an atheist nutter |
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And a British Rail poster read |
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'Have an away day, a cheap holiday, do it today' |
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I glanced back on my life and thought about my wife |
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'Cause they took the keys, and she'll think it's me |
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I'm down in the tube station at midnight |
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The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold |
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I'm down in the tube station at midnight |
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Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight |
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Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight |
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Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight |
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Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight |