Bedsitter Images (2007 Remaster) - Al Stewart

作曲：Al Stewart

The subway station's closed again

Sleeps beneath it's 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 patterns on the door

Chase shivering shadows

To the floor

Upon the pillow

Worn and thin

The memories of hopes begin

The carpet

With it's 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

'Til 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