Forever Autumn - Jeff Wayne/Jerry Wayne Longmire

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 but by the time

I reached their little red brick house

Carrie and her father were gone

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

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

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

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 London

Like the sun through the trees you came to love me

Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away

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

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

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

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 unprovisioned

Driving headlong

It was the beginning of the rout of civilisation

Of the massacre of mankind

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

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