Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Journey Man, artist - Jethro Tull.
Date of issue: 13.04.2003
Song language: English
Journey Man |
Spine-tingling railway sleepers |
Sleepy houses lying four-square and firm |
Orange beams divide the darkness |
Rumbling fit to turn the waking worm. |
Sliding through Victorian tunnels |
where green moss oozes from the pores. |
Dull echoes from the wet embankments |
Battlefield allotments. |
Fresh open sores. |
In late night commuter madness |
Double-locked black briefcase on the floor |
like a faithful dog with master |
sleeping in the draught beside the carriage door. |
To each Journeyman his own home-coming |
Cold supper nearing with each station stop |
Frosty flakes on empty platforms |
Fireside slippers waiting -- Flip. |
Flop. |
Journeyman night-tripping on the late fantasic |
Too late to stop for tea at Gerrards Cross |
and hear the soft shoes on the footbridge shuffle |
as the wheels turn biting on the midnight frost. |
On the late commuter special |
Carriage lights that flicker, fade and die |
Howling into hollow blackness |
Dusky diesel shudders in full cry |
Down redundant morning papers |
Abandon crosswords with a cough. |
Stationmaster in his wisdom |
told the guard to turn the heating off. |