Al Stewart Bedsitter Images lyrics

Bedsitter Images by Al Stewart

Bedsitter Images lyrics

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 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 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
 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