Released: January 1, 1968
Songwriter: Peter Brown (UK) Jack Bruce
Producer: Felix Pappalardi
[Intro]
In a white room with black curtains near the station
Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment
I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines
Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves
You said no strings could secure you at the station
Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows
I walked into such a sad time at the station
As I walked out, felt my own need just beginning
I'll wait in the queue when the trains come back
Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves
[Bridge]
At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd
Consolation for the old wound now forgotten
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings
I'll sleep in this place with the lonely crowd;
Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves
[Outro]
In a white room with black curtains near the station
Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment
I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines
Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves
You said no strings could secure you at the station
Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows
I walked into such a sad time at the station
As I walked out, felt my own need just beginning
I'll wait in the queue when the trains come back
Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves
[Bridge]
At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd
Consolation for the old wound now forgotten
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings
I'll sleep in this place with the lonely crowd;
Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves
[Outro]
- Wheels of Fire: In the Studio (1968)
- Wheels of Fire (1968)
- Classic Rock 1966-1988 (1988)
- White Room
- Sunshine of Your Love
- Crossroads
- Strange Brew
- Badge
- Tales of Brave Ulysses
- I Feel Free
- SWLABR
- Sitting on Top of the World
- Politician
- World of Pain
- I’m So Glad
- Spoonful
- Born Under a Bad Sign
- Outside Woman Blues
- Pressed Rat and Warthog
- Dance the Night Away
- Deserted Cities of the Heart
- Blue Condition
- Wrapping Paper
- Weird Of Hermiston
- Spoonful (live)
- Dreaming
- Passing the Time (alternate version)