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Down the Tube Station at Midnight
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Paul Weller
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The distant echo,
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of faraway voices boarding faraway trains
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To take them home to
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the ones that they love and who love them forever
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The glazed, dirty steps, repeat my own and reflect my thoughts
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Cold and uninviting, partially naked
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Except for toffee wrappers and this morning's papers
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Mr. Jones got run down
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Headlines of death and sorrow, they tell of tomorrow
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Madmen on the rampage
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And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
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I fumble for change, and pull out the Queen
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Smiling, beguiling
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I put in the money and pull out a plum
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Behind me
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Whispers in the shadows, gruff blazing voices
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Hating, waiting
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"Hey boy" they shout, "have you got any money?"
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And I said, "I've a little money and a take away curry,
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I'm on my way home to my wife.
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She'll be lining up the cutlery,
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You know she's expecting me
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Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork"
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And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
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I first felt a fist, and then a kick
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I could now smell their breath
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They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
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And too many right wing meetings
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My life swam around me
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It took a look and drowned me in its own existence
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The smell of brown leather
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It blended in with the weather
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It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth
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It blocked all my senses
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Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer
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And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
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I said I was down in the tube station at midnight
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The last thing that I saw
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As I lay there on the floor
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Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter
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And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awayday, a cheap holiday,
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Do it today!"
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I glanced back on my life
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And thought about my wife
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'cause they took the keys and she'll think its me
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And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
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The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold
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I'm down in the tube station at midnight
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Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight
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