The Day Before You Came

The Day Before You Came - Blancmange

I must have left my house at eight

Because I always do

My train I'm certain

Left the station just when it was due

I must have read the morning

Paper going into town

And having gotten through the editorial

No doubt I must have frowned

I must have made my desk

Around a quarter after nine

With letters to be read and heaps of

Papers waiting to be signed

I must have gone to lunch

At half past twelve or so

The usual place the usual bunch

And still on top of this

I'm pretty sure it must have rained

The day before you came

I must have lit my seventh

Cigarette at half past two

And at the time I never even

Noticed I was blue

I must have kept on dragging

Through the business of the day

Without really knowing anything

I hid a part of me away

At five I must have left;

There's no exception to the rule

A matter of routine

I've done it ever since I finished school

The train back home again

Undoubtedly I must have

Read the evening paper then

Oh yes I'm sure my life was well

Within it's usual frame

The day before you came

I must have opened my front

Door at eight o'clock or so

And stopped along the way

To buy some Chinese food to go

I'm sure I had my dinner

Watching something on TV

There's not I think a single episode

Of Dallas that I didn't see

I must have gone to bed

Around a quarter after ten

I need a lot of sleep and

So I like to be in bed by then

I must have read awhile

The latest one by Barbara

Cartland or something in that style

It's funny but I have no

Sense of living without aim

The day before you came

And turning out the lights

I must have yawned and cuddled

Up for yet another night

And rattling on the roof

I must have heard the sound of rain

The day before you came