Standard (EADGBE)

The distant echo

Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains

To take them home to

The ones that they love and who love them forever

The glazed, dirty _ steps

Repeat my own and reflect my thoughts

Cold and uninviting, partially naked

Except for toffee wrappers and this mornings papers

Mr Jones got run down

Headlines of death and sorrow, they tell of tomorrow

Madmen on the rampage

And I?m down in the tube station at midnight. Oooooooooooh

I fumble for change

And pull out the queen, smiling, beguiling

I put in the money

And pull out a plumb behind me

Whispers in the shadows

Gruff blazing voices, hating, waiting

?Hey boy? they shout, ?have you got any money?

And I said, ?I?ve a little money and a take away curry.

I?m on my way home to my wife

She?ll be lining up the cutlery, you know she?s expecting me,

Polishing the glasses and out the cork?.

And I?m down in the tube station at midnight. Oooooooooooh

I first felt a fist

And then a kick, I could now smell their breath,

They smelt of pubs

And Wormwood scrubs and too many right wing meetings.

My life swan around me in its own existence

The smell of brown leather, it blended in with the weather,

It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth,

It blocked my senses

Couldn?t see, hear, speak any longer.

And I?m down in the tube station at midnight. Oooooooooooh

I said I was down in the tube station at midnight. Oooooooooooh

The last thing I saw as I lay there on the floor

Was ?Jesus saves? painted by an atheist nutter

And a British rail poster read ? have an awayday a cheap holiday, do it today?

I glanced back on my life and thought about my wife

Cause they took the keys and she?ll think its me

And I?m down in the tube station at midnight. Oooooooooooh

The wine will be flat and the curry?s gone cold

I?m down in the tube station at midnight. Oooooooooooh

Don?t wanna go

And I?m down in the tube station at midnight. Oooooooooooh

This is a great song from a great band, I cant believe that there

isn?t that many Jam songs on here.

It?s my goal to let everyone know how great they are.

Theres more where this came from.