Down In The Tube Station At Midnight-Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

[ti:Down in the Tube Station At Midnight] [ar:Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine] [al:1992 The Love Album (Deluxe Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine [00:07.19]The distant echo [00:09.55]Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains [00:13.43] [00:15.01]To take them home to [00:18.07]The ones that they love and who love them forever [00:23.38]The glazed dirty steps [00:26.20]Repeat my own and reflect my thoughts [00:30.07] [00:31.64]Cold and uninviting partially naked [00:35.67]Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's paper [00:38.94]Mr Jones got run down [00:42.09]Headlines of death and sorrow [00:43.33]They tell of tomorrow [00:44.08] [00:44.67]Madmen on the rampage [00:46.97]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [00:50.27] [00:59.08]I fumble for change [01:01.98]And pull out the Queen [01:03.87]Smiling beguiling [01:07.33]I put in the money and pull out a plum [01:12.16]Behind me [01:13.47] [01:15.70]Whispers in the shadows gruff blazing voices [01:19.11] [01:20.52]Hating waiting [01:22.11] [01:23.73]"Hey boy" they shout "have you got any money " [01:27.88]And I said "I've a little money and a take away curry [01:30.61] [01:31.31]I'm on my way home to my wife [01:33.88]She'll be lining up the cutlery [01:35.44]You know she's expecting me [01:37.04]Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork" [01:38.75] [01:39.69]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [01:42.25] [01:45.56]I first felt a fist and then a kick [01:49.98]I could now smell their breath [01:53.88]They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs [01:58.30]And too many right wing meetings [02:02.00]My life swam around me [02:04.89]It took a look and drowned me in its own existence [02:09.36] [02:10.49]The smell of brown leather [02:13.01]It blended in with the weather [02:14.98]It filled my eyes ears nose and mouth [02:17.07]It blocked all my senses [02:19.02]Couldn't see hear speak any longer [02:20.91]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [02:23.59] [02:25.79]I said I was down in the tube station at midnight [02:29.12] [02:36.13]The last thing that I saw [02:37.68]As I lay there on the floor [02:39.03]Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter [02:41.55]And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awayday [02:43.57] [02:44.43]A cheap holiday [02:45.26] [02:46.01]Do it today " [02:47.16]I glanced back on my life [02:48.26]And thought about my wife [02:49.20] [02:49.81]'Cause they took the keys and she'll think it's me [02:52.51]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [02:55.30]The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold [02:57.26] [02:58.06]I'm down in the tube station at midnight [03:00.08] [03:02.91]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight [03:06.50] [03:08.38]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight [03:11.92] [03:13.83]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight [03:17.68] [03:19.45]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight [03:22.42] [03:24.27]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight [03:28.32] [03:30.14]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight