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-We step into the office where \\
+The distant echo -\\
-The boss sits in an office chair\\
+of faraway voices boarding faraway trains\\
-A hundred times a millionaire\\
+To take them home to\\
-Swivelling in his underwear\\
+the ones that they love and who love them forever\\
-And on the lap of luxury\\
+The glazed, dirty steps - repeat my own and reflect my thoughts\\
-Sits some girl from the factory\\
+Cold and uninviting, partially naked\\
-Presented as a Christmas gift\\
+Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's papers\\
-They did the business in the lift\\
+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\\
 \\
-With his trousers round his ankles\\
+I first felt a fist, and then a kick\\
-And his fingers in the till\\
+I could now smell their breath\\
-Everybody loves a scandal\\
+They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs\\
-And it helps to pay the bills \\
+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\\
 \\
-From the ashes of disaster grow\\
+The last thing that I saw\\
-The roses of success and so \\
+As I lay there on the floor\\
-There beneath the mistletoe\\
+Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter\\
-They caught it all on video\\
+And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awayday - a cheap holiday -\\
-And I thought I saw a princess begging\\
+Do it today!"\\
-From the windows of a Double Decker\\
+I glanced back on my life\\
-We all love a royal wedding\\
+And thought about my wife\\
-But a royal divorce is better\\
+'cause they took the keys and she'll think its me\\
-\\
+And I'm down in the tube station at midnight\\
-With their trousers round their ankles\\
+The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold\\
-And their fingers in the till\\
+I'm down in the tube station at midnight\\
-everybody loves a scandal\\
+Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight\\
-And it helps to pay the bills\\
-It's easy \\
-\\
-They say , \\
-If you put a monkey behind a typewriter\\
-For about a million years\\
-He'll write the complete works of William Shakespeare \\
-And then he'll tell you a tale\\
-Of how his love affair failed\\
-With The Princess Of Wales\\
-And the Americans will turn it into a mini series\\
-\\
-With their trousers round their ankles\\
-And their fingers in the till\\
-Everybody loves a scandal\\
-And it helps to pay the bills\\
-It's easy \\
-As D.I.V.O.R.C.E.F.G.\\