You're Gone

I turned on a T.V. station and Lip-read with the sound turned down It was Pro-Celeb mouth-to-mouth resuscitation With Esther Rantzen Playing the one who's drowned In a room next door a couple is fighting But isn't that just one of love's charms When moods change as fast as lightning And fifteen minutes later you're Lying in each other's arms And you're gone They say that it's better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all But if you sit down and count the cost of All those losses There's no profit at all This city gets crazy at Christmas Glitter guards the crucifix all over the place Its head gets too big for its body And its mouth gets Too big for its face And you're gone Never throw away an old newspaper Everyday's rich with its current accounts Prince visits Philippines and parliament debates it Back page, column five Somebody's wedding's announced Sunday night's the night for loving And squeezing out the weekend's last drops Sunday night's the night for forgiving Maybe that's why They shut the shops And you're gone One day you wake up And all the pain you've given out gets returned But I'm not sorry now I've payed for what I've learned And you're gone I turned on a T.V. station and Lip-read with the sound turned down It was the Church of Christ playing the Price Is Right Where everybody starves While Leslie Crowther counts