Artists
Peter Murphy – lead vocals
Jamaaladeen Tacuma – bass
Hugh Marsh – electric violin
Göksel Baktagir – kanun
Ertan Tekin – ney
Yurdal Tokcan – oud
Mercan Dede – percussion, electronics
Written by Paul Statham & Peter Murphy. Produced by Mercan Dede & Peter Murphy, engineered by Daniel Cinelli, mixed by Cinelli, Dede, and Murphy. The closing track (7:36) on Dust (Metropolis/Beggars Banquet, April 2002).
An extended reworking of “Subway” from Peter Murphy’s 1995 album Cascade, rebuilt here with Turkish instruments and violin by Hugh Marsh. AllMusic noted that the original quoted Petula Clark’s “Don’t Sleep in the Subway” in its vocal, over Paul Statham’s synth strings. A reviewer called the Dust version a successful dusting-off of the 1995 song, one of two album-closing remakes alongside “My Last Two Weeks.”
Peter Murphy – Subway Lyrics
It’s like there’s a straight way you know, you know
I’ve told you before it’s as thin as ice
As thin as the razor snow
Don’t freeze in the snow
Don’t bake in the heat
I’ll be your breath
There’s a place where we can meet
There’s a place where we can meet
There’s a place where we can meet
Use me
Don’t sleep in the subway
Don’t sleep in the pouring rain
By my voice in my midnight meditation
When I wake, be my heart’s floatation
Come and fill, come and fill from the overflow
Come and play, come and play be like a bird
Don’t sleep in the subway
I’m needing you well – I
I feel you, you’re closing down yeah
Get close, talk right through me
Get close, keep tight with me
If you fall now it could be forever
I’m telling you the line is thin now
I’ve told you before this hate is a sin
Empty out for the overflow
Let love begin
There’s a place where we can meet
To listen to other songs from the the Teleskop 23 program click here.