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For Davies, it was so personal he didn’t even dare demonstrate the lyrics to one other Kinks till he recorded his vocal. As he claimed, “It had been like an extract from a diary no one was allowed to examine.” Yet it became his most beloved creation. You’d never know within the song what a dump Waterloo Station is — a tribute to Davies’