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DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT Lyrics Artist(Band):The Jam
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 wrapers and this morning's 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 I fumble for change - and pull out the Queen Smiling, beguiling I put in the money and pull out a plum 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 pulling out the cork" And I'm down in the tube station at midnight 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 swam around me It took a look and drowned 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 all my senses Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer And I'm down in the tube station at midnight I said I was down in the tube station at midnight The last thing that 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 The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold I'm down in the tube station at midnight Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight If you find some error in DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Paul Caffrey for submitting the lyrics. Review about DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT Oh...the memories of a brilliant era | Reviewer: Steve Martin | 4/16/2008 A classic Jam song | Reviewer: Jonathan Pitt | 9/17/2006 The song is like a social commentary of the time and also political. The main character is returning home to his wife when he is beaten up by a group of thugs. He probably had a very long day at work and is looking forward to his curry with his wife. The thugs probably decide to beat him up and take all his belongings. You sympathise with the man and I am wondering what becomes of him. Do the thugs get arrested and does the man survive the attack? A wondering piece of song writing. The Jam- Down in a tube station at midnight | Reviewer: James Gollins | 5/15/2006 The Jam were a part of the punk mod era and what a band they really were. This song also shows like many others Paul Weller's great lyrical talent that we still see today. Radical social commentary - what punk was really about | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/2/2006 This is a true punk song from the early - though not the earliest - years of The Jam, before Paul Weller abandoned his roots and sold out to the piss-poor dirgeful soul that would characterize his later work. It has the raw anger of punk that captures the essence of British urban life in the late seventies/early eighties. It was a time when a lot of people were radicalized politically and punk bands gave this awakening a youthful outlet. Punk was depoliticized and sanitized by bands like The Ramones in the US and burned itself out in the UK. In the US, Green Day show some signs of the energy of the earliest days of punk but when you have record companies in control, you can never really have what you had when The Jam ruled the roost. Review the song DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "The Jam" Music | | ||||||||||||
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