People You Were Going To

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Your father has just left your mother Gone off to live with his latest lover; She sits there, just staring So you get back to your own flat Because the atmosphere in there Is so bad you can't bear it And the people you were going to America with Just left on the dawn plane Without you [Verse 2] The people in the downstairs flat Are no longer there now because they left The gas tap on, they're all dead So you've no-one left to talk to You just lie there in melancholy Half-naked on your unmade bed And the people you were going to Africa with Just left on the Southern Star Without you, without you [Bridge] Yes, and the haze that's been forming round your window-panes Is now protracted and poisoned And you cannot feel a portion of the world outside [Verse 3] Can you imagine the way you'd feel If all these things had happened to you And the doctor says you're dying? That is the way that I feel now On finding that your love belongs To someone else and not I And my chance of heaven has just blown away Upon a passing cloud and there is nothing that I can do Without you, without you Yes, and my chance of heaven has just blown away Upon a passing cloud and there is nothing that I can do Without you, without you Without you, without you Without you [Instrumental Break] [Chorus] The people you were going to Have left, gone far away And you're lonely The people you were going to Have left, gone far away And you're lonely The people you were going to Have left, gone far away And you're lonely The people you were going to Have left, gone far away And you're lonely The people you were going to Have left, gone far away And you're lonely The people you were going to Have left, gone far away Gone to America on the down plane The people you were going to Have left, gone far away Gone to service [?] on to Africa The people you were going to Have left, gone far away And you're lonely now The people you were going...