JAM - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight lyrics

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The distant echo -<br>Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains<br>To take them home to<br>The ones that they love and who love them forever<br>The glazed, dirty steps - repeat my own and reflect my thoughts<br>Cold and uninviting, partially naked<br>Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's paper<br>Mr. jones got run down<br>Headlines of death and sorrow - they tell of tomorrow<br>Madmen on the rampage<br>And I'm down in the tube station at midnight<br>I fumble for change - and pull out the queen<br>Smiling, beguiling<br>I put in the money and pull out a plum<br>Behind me<br>Whispers in the shadows - gruff blazing voices<br>Hating, waiting<br>Hey boy they shout - have you got any money? <br>And I said - I've a little money and a take away curry,<br>I'm on my way home to my wife.<br>She'll be lining up the cutlery,<br>You know she's expecting me<br>Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork<br>And I'm down in the tube station at midnight<br><br>I first felt a fist, and then a kick<br>I could now smell their breath<br>They smelt of pubs and wormwood scrubs<br>And too many right wing meetings<br>My life swam around me<br>It took a look and drowned me in it's own existence<br>The smell of brown leather<br>It blended in with the weather<br>It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth<br>It blocked all my senses<br>Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer<br>And I'm down in the tube station at midnight<br>I said I was down in the tube station at midnight<br><br>The last thing that I saw<br>As I lay there on the floor<br>Was jesus saves painted by an atheist nutter<br>And a british rail poster read have an awayday - a cheap holiday -<br>Do it today!<br>I glanced back on my life<br>And thought about my wife<br>'cause they took the keys - and she'll think it's me<br>And I'm down in the tube station at midnight<br>The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold<br>I'm down in the tube station at midnight<br>Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight