[ti:Wasteland] [ar:The Jam] [al:Direction Reaction Creation] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]'A' Bomb In Wardour Street (Album Version) - The Jam [00:20.55]Meet me on the wastelands later this day [00:23.88]We'll sit and talk and hold hands maybe [00:27.16]For there's not much else to do [00:29.70]In this drab and colorless place [00:39.73]Sit amongst the rubber tyres [00:42.98]Amongst the discarded bric-a-brac [00:45.57]People have no use for amongst [00:47.43]The smouldering embers of yesterday [00:53.62]And when or if the sun shines [00:56.47]Lighting our once beautiful features [01:00.50]We'll smile but only for seconds [01:03.34]For to be caught smiling is to acknowledge life [01:07.40]A brave but useless show of compassion [01:10.90]And that is forbidden in this drab and colorless world [01:30.34]Meet me on the wastelands the one's behind [01:34.30]The old houses the one's left standing pre-war [01:36.83]The ones overshadowed by the monolith monstrosities [01:40.34]Councils call homes [01:49.64]There amongst the sh*t the dirty linen [01:52.82]The holy Coca Cola tins the punctured footballs [01:56.33]The ragged dolls the rusting bicycles [01:58.83]We'll sit and probably hold hands [02:03.38]And watch the rain fall watch it watch it [02:07.15]Tumble and fall tumble and falling [02:10.51]Like our lives like our lives [02:13.84]Just like our lives [02:19.22]Talk about the old days [02:21.71]When the wastelands were released [02:22.96]When we could play and think without feeling guilty [02:27.20]Meet me later but we'll have to hold hands [02:33.13]Tumble and fall tumble and falling [02:36.61]Like our lives like our lives [02:39.93]Exactly like our lives