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Suicide on Downing St. by Tim Finn
Performed by
Tim FinnProduced by
Mitchell FroomWrited by
Tim FinnAbout
The song is about the actual event of Derek Bainbridge taking his own life a year before this song was released. He was 120 feet from then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s office.
Downing St. Car-Fire Death Called Suicide (Published 1988)
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Suicide on Downing St. Lyrics
It was no personal defeat
That suicide on Downing Street
They found him burning in his car
He paid the price for what we are
A stroke of luck, a trick of fate
The life I build, the mess I make
Too young to retire, too old to live
This message all he had to give
(Chorus)
Derek Bainbridge did not die in vain
And I will sing his sad luck story
Desparation is a warning flame
Now we stand or fall with Derek Bainbridge
He came 160 miles
To wipe away all those smug smiles
The empty hours dragging by
His spirit withered up inside
(Chorus)
He felt the man that he could be
Was only wasted potential
He went swimming in the deep forbidden sea
Looking for that extra dimension
In a selfish blue nation
It was no personal defeat
That suicide on Downing Street
You cannot call us civilized
As long as one life is denied
(Chorus)
Swinging on a one-way pendulum
Driving down a dead end highway
Desparation is a warning flame
Now we stand or fall
Do we stand or fall
Suicide on Downing St. Q&A
Who wrote Suicide on Downing St.'s ?
Suicide on Downing St. was written by Tim Finn.
Who produced Suicide on Downing St.'s ?
Suicide on Downing St. was produced by Mitchell Froom.