Epic song and one that the Murders still cover. We first started playing this in the eighties and resurrected it again a few years back. It's such a great song to play even if there is quite a bit of words to remember.
By the time I got to England back in 1979 The Jam were the biggest band in the land and had just released their Setting Suns album. The markets in Camden were filled with T-shirt stalls inevitably stocked with The Jam and The Clash. I bought a few t-shirts to bring back to my friends. The one for Tube Station was my favourite. My girlfriend got in first and bought herself the t-shirt . I couldn't walk around with the same t-shirt so I ended up with no Jam t-shirt at all.
Down in the Underground we took photos based on the cover art. Trying to get the train leaving as I posed in my mod gear. Unfortunately we arrived in London after the tour was over so I never got to see them live. 30 years later we got to support From The Jam which was the Jam without Paul Weller. great night at The Prince of Wales. We didn't do Tube Station that night though!
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 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
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