Interpret:

Jethro Tull

Album:

Heavy Horses

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 Gerard's 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.