Down In The Tube Station at Midnight-Soundclash

[ti:Down In The Tube Station at Midnight] [ar:Soundclash] [al:London Town] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Down In The Tube Station at Midnight - Soundclash [00:16.21]The distant echo [00:17.44] [00:18.82]Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains [00:22.17] [00:24.47]To take them home to [00:26.04] [00:27.42]The ones that they love and who love them forever [00:30.38] [00:33.18]The glazed dirty steps repeat my own [00:36.97]And reflect my thoughts [00:38.79] [00:41.45]Cold and uninviting partially naked [00:45.63]Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's paper [00:49.37]Mr Jones got run down [00:51.38] [00:52.20]Headlines of death and sorrow [00:53.70]They tell of tomorrow [00:55.22]Madmen on the rampage [00:56.68] [00:57.45]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [01:00.34] [01:09.79]I fumble for change and pull out the Queen [01:14.00] [01:14.59]Smiling beguiling [01:15.87] [01:18.16]I put in the money and pull out a plum [01:22.39] [01:23.11]Behind me [01:23.90] [01:26.74]Whispers in the shadows gruff blazing voices [01:31.04] [01:31.76]Hating waiting [01:33.01] [01:35.05]"Hey boy" they shout [01:36.45] [01:37.89]"have you got any money " [01:39.62]And I said "I've a little money and a take away curry [01:43.11]I'm on my way home to my wife [01:45.49]She'll be lining up the cutlery [01:47.18]You know she's expecting me [01:48.47]Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork" [01:50.42] [01:50.94]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [01:53.99] [02:03.43]I first felt a fist and then a kick [02:07.68]I could now smell their breath [02:09.61] [02:11.82]They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs [02:16.09]And too many right wing meetings [02:18.06] [02:20.49]My life swam around me [02:21.90] [02:22.78]It took a look and drowned me in its own existence [02:25.93] [02:28.71]The smell of brown leather [02:30.42] [02:31.17]It blended in with the weather [02:33.17]It filled my eyes ears nose and mouth [02:35.89]It blocked all my senses [02:37.23]Couldn't see hear speak any longer [02:39.37]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [02:41.75] [02:44.30]I said I was down in the tube station at midnight [02:47.16] [02:54.96]The last thing that I saw [02:56.46]As I lay there on the floor [02:58.09]Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter [03:00.53]And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awayday [03:02.71]A cheap holiday [03:04.87]Do it today " [03:06.11]I glanced back on my life [03:07.84]And thought about my wife [03:09.24]'Cause they took the keys and she'll think it's me [03:11.85]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight [03:14.29] [03:14.81]The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold [03:17.33]I'm down in the tube station at midnight [03:19.63] [03:21.98]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight