Hollow Point

Awake arise you drowsy sleeper awake arise it’s almost day
No time to lie no time to slumber no time to dream your life away
It was a gorgeous summer’s morning it was a gorgeous summer’s day
His cotton jacket was all he carried as he walked out to face the day

As he was walking he was wondering
With a little dream as a young man will.
He never heard footsteps behind him
By the bus stop at Tulse Hill,
But from his front door they’d had him covered,
They were right behind him from the start,
And though the video was buggered,
Someone decided he looked the part.

Here comes the bus, the front doors hiss,
He climbs aboard and so do they,
And how he swings down into his seat
It’s just another working day.
But there was something in the air that morning,
As they came down to Brixton town.
They sealed the station without warning
There was something going down.

And so he journeyed on and onward.
He called his friend just to explain
How he would be late and not to worry,
And so to Stockwell tube they came

Now he’s on their cameras, he’s on their radar,
He’s on their crackling radios.
His oyster card is in his pocket,
At ten a.m. through the gates he goes,
And down and down goes the moving staircase,
And deeper down go the others too,
And through the hourglass the sand is falling,
There is nothing they can do

When the train comes in they are right beside him -
Some say three and some say four.
Some say the cameras they weren’t working
As he sat down near the open door.
If he’d’ve stopped if he’d’ve listened
Commissioner said that it was no good
He said they “gave him no instruction
That an innocent man would’ve understood”

Just a Brazilian electrician
Christ only knows what he came here for
But hollow point was the ammunition
It’s our turn now for some shock and awe.

Awake arise you drowsy sleeper awake arise it’s almost day
No time to lie no time to slumber no time to dream your life away
It was a gorgeous summers morning it was a gorgeous summers day
His cotton jacket was all he carried as he walked out to face the day