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Elvis Costello Lyrics for Song: Jimmie Standing In The Rain
 Lyrics for Album: National Ransom [2010]
 
 
 
 39824>Third-Class ticket in his pocket
 
 Punching out the shadows underneath the sockets
 
 Tweed coat turned up against the fog
 
 
 
 Slow coaches rolling o'er the moor
 
 Between the very memory
 
 And approaches of war
 
 
 
 Stale bread curling on a luncheon counter
 
 Loose change lonely, not the right amount
 
 
 
 Forgotten Man of an indifferent nation
 
 Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
 
 Somebody's calling you again
 
 The sky is falling
 
 Jimmie's standing in the rain
 
 
 
 Nobody wants to buy a counterfeited prairie lullaby in a colliery town
 
 A hip flask and fumbled skein with some stagedoor Josephine
 
 is all he'll get now
 
 Eyes going in and out of focus
 
 Mild and bitter from tuberculosis
 
 
 
 Forgotten Man
 
 Indifferent nation
 
 Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
 
 Somebody's calling you again
 
 The sky is falling
 
 Jimmie's standing in the rain
 
 
 
 Her soft breath was gentle on his neck
 
 If he could choose the time to die
 
 Then he would come and go like this
 
 Underneath a painted sky
 
 
 
 She woke up and called him "Charlie" by mistake
 
 And then in shame began to cry
 
 Tarnished silver band peals off a phrase
 
 And then warms their hands around the brazier
 
 
 
 Forgotten Man
 
 Indifferent nation
 
 Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
 
 Somebody's calling you again
 
 It's finally dawning
 
 Jimmie's standing in the rain
 
 
 
 Brilliantine glistening
 
 Your soft plaintive whistling
 
 And your wan wandering smile
 
 
 
 Died down at The Hippodrome
 
 Now you're walking off to jeers,
 
 the lonely sound of jingling spurs,
 
 the "toodle-oos" and "Oh, my dears" down at "The Argyle"
 
 
 
 Vile vaudevillians applaud sobriety
 
 There's no place for a half-cut cowboy in polite society
 
 
 
 Forgotten Man
 
 Indifferent nation
 
 Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
 
 Somebody's calling you again
 
 It's finally dawning
 
 Jimmie's standing in the rain
 
 
 
 Thanks to razvan
 
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| Album Lyrics: National Ransom [2010] |  
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  Elvis Costello
 "National Ransom [2010]"
 
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