Basing Street-Nick Lowe

[ti:Basing Street] [ar:Nick Lowe] [al:Labour Of Lust] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Basing Street - Nick Lowe [00:00.76]It's an ugly sight [00:03.31] [00:04.99]By the police light [00:07.11] [00:09.99]But lonely now [00:11.57] [00:13.03]As the innocents leave [00:14.62] [00:15.26]In twos and threes [00:17.96] [00:20.93]Cop straightens up [00:22.19] [00:23.70]Wiping blood off his hand [00:25.19] [00:27.69]Says "Christ above [00:29.10] [00:30.59]That's the worst I've seen [00:32.14]In more than seventeen" [00:35.98] [00:40.06]Somebody says [00:40.80]"I think I remember him [00:41.82] [00:43.07]Used to see him hanging 'round [00:44.43] [00:46.63]But it's hard to be sure [00:48.11] [00:50.52]Looking at him now" [00:51.54] [00:54.35]Whose hand made the boy [00:56.25] [00:57.70]Suffer and bleed [00:59.49] [01:01.57]Who did the deed [01:02.85] [01:03.53]On Basing street [01:06.21] [01:21.43]It's 4:29 [01:23.01] [01:24.99]And out on the airwaves [01:26.70] [01:28.85]Late night DJ plays [01:30.81] [01:31.79]For the lost and lonely [01:33.23] [01:35.35]And their late night ways [01:36.79] [01:39.76]Popping pills [01:40.55] [01:42.89]Washed down coffee [01:44.08] [01:46.91]With a little coffee blows [01:48.83] [01:49.89]Cigarette ash [01:50.91] [01:53.09]Off the late news flash [01:54.49] [01:57.64]The world is waiting for him now [01:59.33] [02:01.82]In the palm of his hand [02:03.19] [02:05.45]He leans toward [02:06.25]The microphone and says [02:07.85] [02:09.13]"We interrupt this program" [02:10.39] [02:12.93]But out there in radio land [02:15.84] [02:16.77]They're all asleep [02:17.74] [02:19.64]As the firemen hose down [02:22.32] [02:23.21]Basing street