Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

[Intro 2]
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D7

[Verse 1]
The distant echo
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Of far away voices boarding faraway     trains
G7 Gmaj7
        To take them home to
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The ones that they love and who love them forever

[Bridge]
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  The glazed, dirty steps
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Repeat my own and reflect my thoughts
G7 Gmaj7 Am          D7
           Cold and uninviting,
Am       D7
  partially naked
Except for

[Chorus]
G                      Bm                C
Toffee wrapers and this  morning's papers
              D       G
Mr. Jones got run down
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Headlines of death and sorrowthey tell of tomorrow
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Madmen on the rampage
G                           Bm         C
And I'm down in the tube station at mid

[Intro Riff]
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[Verse 2]
night
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I fumble for changeand pull out the Queen
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Smiling, beguiling
                                  G      Gmaj7
I put in the money and pull out a plum Be

[Bridge]
Am
  hind me
         D7    Am       D7       G       Gmaj7
Whispers in the  shadowsgruff blazing voices
  G7
Hating, waiting
D7       Am                D7
"Hey boy"  they shout have you got any money?

[Chorus]
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

[Intro Riff]
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[Verse 3]
at midnight
I first felt a fist, and then a kick
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I could now           smell their breath
They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
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And too many   right

[Bridge]
Am
  wing meetings
D7          Am
My life swam  around me
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It took a look and drowned me in its own
Am             D7
  existence The
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smell of  brown leather
           D7
It blended in with the weather

[Chorus]
G
It filled my
Eyes, ears,
Bm                              C
nose and mouth It blocked all my
senses
                    D         G
Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer
                         Bm     C
And I'm down in the tube station
D             G
 at midnight I
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said I was down in the tube station

[Break]
D          G
at midnight

[Chorus]
                    Bm
The last thing that I saw
                  C
As I lay there on the floor
                  D                        G
Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter
                   Bm
And a British Rail poster read
       C               D
Have an Awayday a cheap holiday
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Do it today!
                  Bm
I glanced back on my life
                  C
And thought about my wife
                D                  G
Cause they took the keysand she'll think it's me
                Bm               C
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
              D                  G
The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold
                Bm      C
I'm down in the tube station at midnight
G                          Bm      C
Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight
G                          Bm      C
Don't want to go down in a tube sta

[Break]
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[Outro]
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