Bedsitter Images Lyrics

Bedsitter Images lyrics

The subway station's closed again

 Sleeps beneath its veil of rain

 my footprints broken trail behind

 Steals the nightlights from my mind

 

 The dark deserted streets then clear

 Today has lived and died in here

 So I leave the chapel gloom 

 To find the shelter of my tiny room

 

 But it's alright while the lights of the city shine so bright

 It's all right till the last winding train fades from sight

 Then alone in my room I must stay to lose or win

 While these wild bedsitter images come back to hem me in

 

 The panneled patens (patterns?) on the door

 chase shivering shadows to the floor

 Upon the pillow worn and thin

 the memories of hopes begin 

 the carpet with its flowers and shredding

 spires a foot before my bed

 the crack that won't return again

 advancing through my broken window pane

 

 But it's alright while the lights of the city shine so bright

 It's all right till the last winding train fades from sight

 Then alone in my room I must stay to lose or win

 While these wild bedsitter images come back to hem me in

 

 

 The friends I've left back home all write

 with laughing words that warm my sight

 saying "Tell us, how's the city life?"

 I reply and say just fine (why?)

 and so you see I can't go back

 until I either win or crack

 I'm standing in a one way street

 The stage is set

 The story incomplete

 

 But it's alright while the lights of the city shine so bright

 It's all right till the last winding train fades from sight

 Then alone in my room I must stay to lose or win

 While these wild bedsitter images come back to hem me in