Down In The Tube Station At Midn-The Jam

[ti:Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (Single Edit)] [ar:The Jam] [al:The Best Of The Jam 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Down In The Tube Station At Midn - The Jam (果酱乐队) [00:26.92]The distant echo [00:28.18] [00:29.55]Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains [00:32.89] [00:34.99]To take them home to [00:36.78] [00:37.85]The ones that they love and who love them forever [00:40.86] [00:43.46]The glazed dirty steps [00:45.50] [00:46.36]Repeat my own and reflect my thoughts [00:48.94] [00:52.20]Cold and uninviting partially naked [00:56.17]Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's paper [00:59.95]Mr Jones got run down [01:02.09] [01:02.93]Headlines of death and sorrow [01:04.33]They tell of tomorrow [01:05.79]Madmen on the rampage [01:07.28] [01:08.27]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [01:10.45] [01:20.52]I fumble for change [01:21.72] [01:23.45]And pull out the Queen [01:24.72] [01:25.34]Smiling beguiling [01:26.67] [01:28.79]I put in the money and pull out a plum [01:32.94] [01:33.80]Behind me [01:34.67] [01:37.39]Whispers in the shadows - gruff blazing voices [01:42.51]Hating waiting [01:43.52] [01:45.88]"Hey boy" they shout - "have you got any money " [01:50.33]And I said - "I've a little money and a take away curry [01:53.65]I'm on my way home to my wife [01:55.63] [01:56.33]She'll be lining up the cutlery [01:57.91]You know she's expecting me [01:59.56]Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork" [02:02.30]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [02:04.55] [02:14.45]I first felt a fist and then a kick [02:18.76]I could now smell their breath [02:20.31] [02:22.75]They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs [02:27.00]And too many right wing meetings [02:28.99] [02:31.13]My life swam around me [02:32.50] [02:33.64]It took a look and drowned me in its own existence [02:36.90] [02:39.67]The smell of brown leather [02:41.25] [02:42.15]It blended in with the weather [02:44.07]It filled my eyes ears nose and mouth [02:46.44]It blocked all my senses [02:47.63]Couldn't see hear speak any longer [02:50.33]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [02:52.53] [02:55.33]I said I was down in the tube station at midnight [02:58.25] [03:06.16]The last thing that I saw [03:07.60]As I lay there on the floor [03:09.04]Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter [03:11.60]And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awayday [03:14.01] [03:14.69]A cheap holiday [03:16.16]Do it today " [03:17.26]I glanced back on my life [03:18.63]And thought about my wife [03:20.04]'Cause they took the keys - and she'll think it's me [03:22.57]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [03:25.42]The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold [03:28.14]I'm down in the tube station at midnight [03:30.03] [03:32.92]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight [03:35.44] [03:38.39]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight [03:41.05] [03:43.90]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight [03:46.48] [03:49.30]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight