Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (Live)-The Gift

[ti:Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (Live)] [ar:The Gift] [al:The Jam Set] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (Live) - The Gift [00:17.40]The distant echo [00:20.37]Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains [00:26.63]To take them home to [00:29.53]The ones that they love and who love them forever [00:35.64]The glazed dirty steps repeat my own and reflect my thoughts [00:44.56]Cold and uninviting partially naked [00:49.03]Except for toffee wrappers and this morning's paper [00:52.67]Mr jones got run down [00:55.57]Headlines of death and sorrow they tell of tomorrow [00:58.40]Madmen on the rampage [01:01.18]And i'm down in the tube station at midnight [01:12.48] [01:14.15]I fumble for change and pull out the queen [01:19.50]Smiling beguiling [01:23.26]I put in the money and pull out a plum [01:28.57]Behind me [01:30.42] [01:32.43]Whispers in the shadows gruff blazing voices [01:37.65]Hating waiting [01:41.19]Hey boy they shout have you got any money [01:45.20]And i said i've a little money and a take away curry [01:49.09]I'm on my way home to my wife [01:51.82]She'll be lining up the cutlery [01:53.42]You know she's expecting me [01:54.85]Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork [01:57.85]And i'm down in the tube station at midnight [02:04.66] [02:10.55]I first felt a fist and then a kick [02:15.15]I could now smell their breath [02:19.56]They smelt of pubs and wormwood scrubs [02:23.90]And too many right wing meetings [02:28.63]My life swam around me [02:31.33]It took a look and drowned me in its own existence [02:37.55]The smell of brown leather [02:40.13]It blended in with the weather [02:42.15]It filled my eyes ears nose and mouth [02:43.94]It blocked all my senses [02:45.26]Couldn't see hear speak any longer [02:48.39]And i'm down in the tube station at midnight [02:53.53]I'm down now in the tube station at midnight [02:59.81] [03:30.85]The last thing that i saw [03:32.17]As i lay there on the floor [03:33.70]Was jesus saves painted by an atheist nutter [03:36.42]And a british rail poster read have an away day [03:39.78]A cheap holiday [03:41.35]Do it today [03:42.48]I glanced back on my life [03:43.83]And thought about my wife [03:45.22]Cause they took the keys and she'll think it's me [03:47.99]I'm down in the tube station at midnight [03:50.94]The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold [03:53.94]I'm down in the tube station at midnight [03:58.87]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight [04:04.78]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight