Down In The Tube Station At Midnight lyrics by The Jam
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Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam
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INTRO . . .
The dis-tant ec-ho
of far-a-way voic-es
board-ing far-a-way trains
To take them home to
the ones that they love
and who love them for-ev-er
The glazed, dir-ty steps re-peat my own
and re-flect my thoughts,
Cold and un-in-vit--ing,
par-tial-ly nak-ed ex-cept for tof-fee
wrap-pers and this morn-ing's pa-per
Mr Jones got run down
Head-lines of death and sor-row
They tell of to-mor-row
Mad men on the ram-page
And I'm down in the
tube stat-ion at mid-night.
I fum-ble for change
and pull out the Queen
Smil-ing, be-guil-ing
I put in the mon-ey
and pull out a plum be-hind me.
Whis-pers in the shad-ows
gruff blaz-ing voic-es hat-ing, wait-ing
"Hey boy" they shout
"Have you got an-y mon-ey?"
And I said "I've a lit-tle mon-ey
and a take-a-way cur-ry,
I'm on my way home to my wife,"
She'll be lin-ing up the cut-le-ry,
You know she's ex-pect-ing me
Pol-ish-ing the glas-ses and
pul-ling out the cork
And I'm down in the
tube stat-ion at mid-night
I first felt a fist, and then a kick
I could now smell their breath
They smelt of pubs
and Worm-wood Scrubs
And too ma-ny right wing meet-ings
My life swam a-round me
It took a look and drowned me
in its own ex-ist-ence
The smell of brown leath-er
It blend-ed in with the weath-er
It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth
It blocked all my sen-ses
Couldn't see, hear, speak an-y long-er
I'm down in the tube sta-tion at mid-night
I said I was down in the
tube stat-ion at mid-night.
The last thing I saw as I lay
there on the floor was "Je-sus Saves"
paint-ed by an A-the-ist nut-ter,
And a Brit-ish Rail post-er read
"Have an A-way-day,
a cheap hol-i-day, do it to---day!"
I glanced back on my life
thought a-bout my wife,
'Cause they took the keys
and she'll think it's me
I'm down in the
tube stat-ion at mid-night
The wine will be flat
and the cur-ry's gone cold
I'm down in the
tube stat-ion at mid-night
Don't want to go down in
a tube stat-ion at mid-night,
Don't want to go down in
a tube stat-ion at mid-night,
Don't want to go down in
a tube stat-ion at mid-night,
Don't want to go down in
a tube stat-ion at mid-night,
Don't want to go down in
a tube stat-ion at mid-night.