The Pyros - Bethnal Green Tube Disaster lyrics

Let me take you back to the second world war A time of great valour a time of folklore To a place in the eastend they call bethnal green Battle scarred by the blitz Can you picture the scene? There's a tube station all londoners know It's between barmey park and paradise row It was used as a shelter by families all around When the siren gave the warning They'd go underground I've heard people say It was a terrible place The conditions were dire But these were desperate days To risk disaster on top Or disease down below Better to sleep with the devil you know For my dear mother's life A shoe was the cost For the want of a step Two hundred were lost News had gone around The germans had a new bomb Rocket powered it would soon come That night the sirens had called them to the tube Worrying 'bout bombs and rockets As they queued frightened by a strange sound The crowd began to run It was only a new anti-aircraft gun But once panic sets in and fear runs wild There's no hope for man, woman nor child Some talk of lost lovers or of losing a friend Some talk of the bodies laid end to end Brothers and sisters whole families gone Not one of them were k**ed by a bomb When war is done and they count the cost On nineteen steps two hundred were lost