[Verse 1]
Third class ticket in his pocket
Punching out the shadows underneath the socket
Tweed coat turned up against the fog
Slow coaches rolling o'er the moor
Between the very memory and approaches of war
Stale bread curling on a luncheon counter
Loose change lonely, not the right amount

[Chorus]
Forgotten man of an indifferent nation
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
Somebody's calling you again, the sky is falling
Jimmie's standing in the rain

[Verse 2]
Nobody wants to buy a counterfeited
Prairie lullaby in a colliery town
The hip flask and fumbled skein with
Some stage door Josephine is all he'll get now
Eyes going in and out of focus
Mild and bitter from tuberculosis

[Chorus]
Forgotten man, indifferent nation
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
Somebody's calling you again, the sky is falling
Jimmie's standing in the rain
[Bridge]
Her soft breath was gentle on his neck
If he could choose the time to die
Then he would come and go like this
Underneath a painted sky
She woke up and called him "Charlie" by mistake
And then in shame began to cry
Tarnished silver band peals off a phrase
And then warms their hands around the brazier

[Chorus]
Forgotten man, indifferent nation
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
Somebody's calling you again, it's finally dawning
Jimmie's standing in the rain

[Verse 3]
Brilliantine glistening, your soft plaintive whistling
And your wan wandering smile
Died down from the Hippodrome
Now you're walking off to jeers
The lonely sound of jingling spurs
The "toodle-oos" and "Oh my dears"
Down at the Argyle
Vile vaudevillians applaud sobriety
There's no place for a half-cut cowboy in polite society
[Chorus]
Forgotten man, indifferent nation
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
Somebody's calling you again, it's finally dawning
Jimmie's standing in the rain

[Outro]
Somebody's calling you again, it's finally dawning
Jimmie's standing in the rain