Town Called Malice-The Jam

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[00:00.00]Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam
[00:14.84]The distant echo -
[00:29.69]Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains
[00:34.94]To take them home to
[00:37.87]The ones that they love and who love them forever
[00:43.36]The glazed dirty steps - repeat my own and reflect my thoughts
[00:52.16]Cold and uninviting partially naked
[00:56.59]Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's paper
[01:00.09]Mr Jones got run down
[01:03.08]Headlines of death and sorrow - they tell of tomorrow
[01:05.77]Madmen on the rampage
[01:08.31]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
[01:20.60]I fumble for change - and pull out the Queen
[01:25.85]Smiling beguiling
[01:28.84]I put in the money and pull out a plum
[01:33.84]Behind me
[01:37.33]Whispers in the shadows - gruff blazing voices
[01:42.38]Hating waiting
[01:46.06]"Hey boy" they shout -"have you got any money"
[01:49.81]And I said -"I've a little money and a take away curry
[01:53.93]I'm on my way home to my wife
[01:56.29]She'll be lining up the cutlery
[01:58.11]You know she's expecting me
[01:59.67]Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork"
[02:02.10]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
[02:14.27]I first felt a fist and then a kick
[02:18.82]I could now smell their breath
[02:22.57]They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
[02:27.01]And too many right wing meetings
[02:30.90]My life swam around me
[02:33.39]It took a look and drowned me in its own existence
[02:39.45]The smell of brown leather
[02:41.95]It blended in with the weather
[02:44.07]It filled my eyes ears nose and mouth
[02:46.50]It blocked all my senses
[02:47.68]Couldn't see hear speak any longer
[02:50.44]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
[02:55.28]I said I was down in the tube station at midnight
[03:05.83]The last thing that I saw
[03:07.14]As I lay there on the floor
[03:09.15]Was"Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter
[03:11.27]And a British Rail poster read"Have an Awayday - a cheap holiday -
[03:16.26]Do it today"
[03:17.02]I glanced back on my life
[03:18.63]And thought about my wife
[03:19.88]'Cause they took the keys - and she'll think it's me
[03:22.77]And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
[03:25.25]The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold
[03:28.18]I'm down in the tube station at midnight
[03:31.98]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight
[03:38.22]Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight