Tabbed by: ClassicManiac
CAPO 7 (to be in key with the PSRAT album version) or
CAPO 6 (to be in key with e.g. the live version on "The Essential S&G")
Intro: C5 - C5 - G5 - G5 - G5 - E5
C5 C5 G5 G5 G5 E5
The last train is nearly due, the underground is closing soon,
C5 C5 G5 G5 G5 E5
And in the dark deserted station, restless in anticipation,
C5 C5 G5 G5 - G5 - E5
A man waits in the shadows.
C5 C5 G5 G5 G5 E5
His restless eyes leap and scratch, at all that they can touch or catch,
C5 C5 G5 G5 G5 E5
And hidden deep within his pocket, safe within his silent socket,
C5 C5 G5 G5 - G5 - E5
He holds a coloured crayon.
C5 C5 G5 G5 G5 E5
Now from the tunnel's stony womb, the carriage rides to meet the groom ,
C5 C5 G5 G5 G5 E5
And opens wide and welcome doors, but he hesitates, then withdraws
C5 C5 G5 E5
Deeper in the shadows.
E5 D5
And the train is gone suddenly, on wheels clicking silently
C5 A5 E5 A5
Like a gently tapping litany, and he holds his crayon rosary
C5 G5 E5
Tighter in his hand.
C5 C5 G5 G5 G5 E5
Now from his pocket quick he flashes, the crayon on the wall he slashes,
C5 C5 G5 G5 G5 E5
Deep upon the advertising, a single-worded poem comprised of
C5 C5 G5 G5 - G5 - E5
Four letters.
C5 C5 G5
And his heart is laughing, screaming, pounding,
G5 G/f# E5
The poem across the tracks rebounding,
C5 C5 G5 G5 G5 E5
Shadowed by the exit light, his legs take their ascending flight
C5 C5 G5 G/f# C5 G5
To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night.
