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A pale yellow morning moon hung over,
Over the workaholics on the streets of rain
And high up in a window box
Were blue forget-me-nots
Right here
On the northern line
Waterloo
You can hear the trains pulling out
From the world inside your room
You said if we start running
We could run forever
I can hear the trains pulling out
Ten flights up in a tower block heaven
With half a return ticket in my pocket
And memories of all the same sad souvenirs
And the beating of the rain
In patterns on the same old pain I shared with you
And I tried to tell it true
But I don't hear you
Waterloo
You can hear the trains pulling out
From the world inside your room
You said if we start running
We could run forever
I can hear the trains pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Hear the trains
Waterloo
Over the workaholics on the streets of rain
And high up in a window box
Were blue forget-me-nots
Right here
On the northern line
Waterloo
You can hear the trains pulling out
From the world inside your room
You said if we start running
We could run forever
I can hear the trains pulling out
Ten flights up in a tower block heaven
With half a return ticket in my pocket
And memories of all the same sad souvenirs
And the beating of the rain
In patterns on the same old pain I shared with you
And I tried to tell it true
But I don't hear you
Waterloo
You can hear the trains pulling out
From the world inside your room
You said if we start running
We could run forever
I can hear the trains pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Hear the trains
Waterloo
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I just heard this song again after many years. It definitely seems to resonate more now than it did in my youth. Waterloo is a train station in W1, London (West of central London) and is one of the busiest train stations in the London area. This is a song of loss and rememberance, and it seems some time has passed since "she" went away. Probably an anthem to lost innocence and youth, as much as a a loss of love... as the "we could run forever" is more a statement one would make when young a naive, and the opening lines regarding "work-a- holics" seems to at least posit the singer has some foot in the "all grown up" world. It is a incredibly beautiful song... and for me at least, takes me back some years to the one that got away. A couple of small errors in the lyrics above. Of course it's blue forget-me-nots... and "I tried to tell it true" (not rue...) otherwise.... it's all good.