Forever Autumn

For three days I fought my way along roads packed with refugees
 The homeless, burdened with boxes and bundles containing their valuables
 All that was of value to me was in London
 By the time I reached their little red brick house, Carrie and her father were gone
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 The summer sun is fading as the year grows old
 And darker days are drawing near
 The winter winds will be much colder
 Now you're not here
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 I watch the birds fly south across the Autumn sky
 And one by one they disappear
 I wish that I was flying with them
 Now you're not here
 Like the sun through the trees you came to love me
 Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away
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 Through Autumns golden gown we used to kick our way
 You always loved this time of year
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 Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
 'Cause you're not here
 'Cause you're not here
 'Cause you're not here
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 Fire suddenly leapt from house to house
 The population panicked and ran and I was swept along with them
 Aimless and lost without Carrie
 Finally I headed eastward for the ocean
 And my only hope of survival a boat out of England
 Like the sun through the trees you came to love me
 Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away
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 A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes
 As if to hide a lonely tear
 My life will be forever Autumn
 'Cause you're not here
 'Cause you're not here
 'Cause you're not here
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 As I hastened through Covent Garden, Blackfriars and Billingsgate
 More and more people joined the painful exodus
 Sad, weary woman, their children stumbling and streaked with tears
 Their men bitter and angry, the rich rubbing shoulder with beggars and outcasts
 Dogs snarled and whined, the horses bits were covered with foam
 And here and there were wounded soldiers, as helpless as the rest
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 We saw tripods wading up the Thames
 Cutting through bridges as though they were paper
 Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Bridge
 One appeared above Big Ben
 Ulla!
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 Never before in the history of the world had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together
 This was no disciplined march it was a stampede without order and without a goal
 Six million people unarmed and un-provisioned, driving headlong
 It was the beginning of the rout of civilisation, of the massacre of mankind
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 A vast crown buffeted me toward the already packed steamer
 I looked up enviously at those safely onboard straight into the eyes of my beloved Carrie
 At sight of me she began to fight her way along the packed deck to the gangplank
 At that very moment it was raised,
 And I caught a last glimpse of her despairing face as the crowd swept me away from her
 Like the sun through the trees you came to love me
 Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away
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 Through Autumns golden gown we used to kick our way
 You always loved this time of year
 
 Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
 'Cause you're not here
 'Cause you're not here
 'Cause you're not here