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Top of the Escalator

from Not Your Door by Robert Rotifer

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Top of the Escalator


I said I'm sorry to hear
About what's happened to you
I was trying to be nice
There was no need to be true
I saw your picture pop up
On my timeline today
Knowing if I ignored it
It would just go away

Now your girlfriend she writes
She can't believe that you're gone
What I find harder to believe
Is how you ever found one
But underneath all her drama
And all of her grief
I've a feeling she and I
Share the same sense of relief

Cause every time I get off
At that underground stop
Would you believe
All those decades later
Part of me still sees you there
Looking down from the top
Of the escalator

You and your thick bunch of friends
You never could keep up with me

Some years on when someone
Introduced me to you
There was nothing in your eyes
No, I don't think you knew
That the last time we met
You'd been holding a knife
Chased me down the upward escalator
Running for my life

Now every time I get off
At that underground stop
Would you believe
All those decades later
Part of me still sees you there
Looking down from the top of the escalator

You in your big silly boots
You never could keep up with me

Out of breath I would come up
Into the open air
At the other end of the station
They'd turn off half the street lights
And that meant midnight
On Südtirolerplatz

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from Not Your Door, released July 1, 2016

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Robert Rotifer Canterbury, UK

Robert Rotifer is a musician, writer, sometime artist, singer (of sorts), born in Vienna deep in the last century, He moved to the UK just before it ended (the century, that is), has made some 11 or 12 albums and has been lucky enough to play in bands he rates with people who also turned up on his records over the years.

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