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Torn on the Platform Lyrics
Once more just before Im leaving
Torn on the platform
Once more just before Im leaving
Torn on the platform
Cos Ill miss you and I love you
I know this is over just for mow
Cos I miss you, ohh, how I miss you
Youre not my girl you're my town
A weekend away, leave the city today
Dont want the big smoke to leave me behind
The train leaves at 2, platform 3 Waterloo
50 p to the tramp makes me feel kind
I get a good seat , with a window my feet
Are up on the one in front everyone stares
Why do they care, like theres feelings in chairs
Trapped for 3 hours until I get there
Cos my
Eyes, eyes, eyes
Are not
Dry, dry, dry
As I
Realise, ise, ise
That in a few minutes this train will be gone
Sighs, sighs, sighs
City
Fly's, fly's, fly's
Wonder
Why, why, why
Would anyone want to leave where I come from?
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
It's 1.58 wish that I had been late
And missed the train and given them an excuse
But what is the use, I've less slack than a noose
Do or die stay or go what shall I choose
Cos my
Eyes, eyes, eyes
Are not
Dry, dry, dry
As I
Realise, ise, ise
That in a few minutes this train will be gone
Sighs, sighs, sighs
City
Fly's, fly's, fly's
Wonder
Why, why, why
Would anyone want to leave where I come from?
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
Like in a film the motion starts to slow
As the beeping carriage doors begin to close
Momenterily I'm standing froze
Then I jump between the gap
Land on the platform flat
I'm not
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
Once more just before Im leaving
Torn on the platform
I know this is over just for mow
Cos I miss you, ohh, how I miss you
Youre not my girl you're my town
Dont want the big smoke to leave me behind
The train leaves at 2, platform 3 Waterloo
50 p to the tramp makes me feel kind
Are up on the one in front everyone stares
Why do they care, like theres feelings in chairs
Trapped for 3 hours until I get there
Eyes, eyes, eyes
Are not
Dry, dry, dry
As I
Realise, ise, ise
That in a few minutes this train will be gone
Sighs, sighs, sighs
City
Fly's, fly's, fly's
Wonder
Why, why, why
Would anyone want to leave where I come from?
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
And missed the train and given them an excuse
But what is the use, I've less slack than a noose
Do or die stay or go what shall I choose
Eyes, eyes, eyes
Are not
Dry, dry, dry
As I
Realise, ise, ise
That in a few minutes this train will be gone
Sighs, sighs, sighs
City
Fly's, fly's, fly's
Wonder
Why, why, why
Would anyone want to leave where I come from?
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
As the beeping carriage doors begin to close
Momenterily I'm standing froze
Then I jump between the gap
Land on the platform flat
Torn on the platform
Torn on the platform
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bare*
It's not about a girl, he's saying all these things like i'll miss you and I love you but it's over for now and then saying...but you are not my girlfriend (which is who you'd have these kind of feelings for usually) but you are my town. He loves his town so much he has these strong feelings for it. I don't think he is saying "you are not my girl you are much more you are like my home as you mean so much to me", which I think everyone else is seeing it as.
I love this song so so so much...why has no one else posted anything? I'm guessing it's about a person who has to go somewhere but doesn't want to leave London so he wants to miss the train so he has an excuse not to leave.
I agree ePilgramage, it's a brilliant song
I think it pretty much speaks for itself though, a guy not wanting to leave London for somewhere else (probably a job move judging from "given them an excuse") and eventually deciding he doesn't wanna leave and jumping off the train as the doors close.
Lovely.
Gorgeous song.
I heard from a friend it's about a guy wondering which train to get on - either go and see old friends or go to a party. I don't know where they heard it but idk :|
amazing song for starters.
i agree with you guys in that it's about him now wanting to leave. But i think it's got some deeper symbolic meaning, i think he doesn't want to leave the town because leaving the town = leaving his girl. shown by the line; "Youre not my girl you're my town". Anyone agree, or disagree out of interest?
not*
hmmmm......
everything :( this is how i feel all the time
I agree with Matt leaving the city means leaving his girl. So maybe he's got offered a job somewhere but that would mean leaving the city and his girl. In the end the song speaks for itself, he hasa change of heart and decides to stay at the last minute.
I dont think this is about leaving a girl behind, Although that is how it sounds at the beginning. I believe that it is about someone who has lived in London their whole life and it has become his whole world, Like a part of him and how he cannot bear to leave it.