Fat And Frantic - Darling Doris lyrics

Round the corner by the grocery store Stood Darling Doris thirty years or more Never out of order, never vandalised She had a kind of mystery that nothing could disguise We'd queue for hours to use her phone Savour times with her alone Artists came to draw Reporters came to write As Doris stood there proudly That beacon of the night But now they've taken my Darling Doris away Yeah they've taken my Darling Doris away Although in recent years we've all had a phone We found we didn't want to use our own We were full of longing, we began to pine To walk on down to Doris and wait patiently in line A cafe was built to feed the queues They called it D.D. and it made the news Local businesses sprung up on the side As Doris stood there proudly That beacon of the night But now they've taken my Darling Doris away Yeah they've taken my Darling Doris away In the summertime of Eighty-Six There came a rumour of Telecom's tricks Doris was to go, they had to modernise A new and better service promised What a load of lies Protests grew across the nation Organised ma** demonstrations Though we signed petitions Grown men even cried Telecom ignored us How democracy has died But now they've taken my Darling Doris away Yeah they've taken my Darling Doris away Round the corner by the grocery store There stands a phone box now without a door Often out of order, often vandalised It has no sense of dignity, attraction to the eyes The cafe has closed, the queues have gone The locals wonder what went wrong No one comes to draw, no one comes to write They talk of Darling Doris That Beacon of the night But now they've taken my Darling Doris away Yeah they've taken my Darling Doris away How can I forgive them?