"Since My Dearest Husband" lyrics - PAUL HEATON

The candle flickers but never burns
The planets spin the Earth just turns
Since my dearest husband left my side
The birds don't even want the worms
They probably won't lest he returns
Since my dearest husband left my side

Everything I did before
Wipe the top and clean the floor
Mean so little since he left my side
All the kisses that I gave
Must have followed him to the grave
Along with all the tears that I cried

There were questions in Parliament
Stewards enquiries
Samuel Pepys and Adrian Mole
Entered into diaries
And the minute of silence
Was faithfully observed
In all the pubs and restaurants
No beer and wine was served
When that stupid git he went and died
When my dearest partner left my side

The postman knocks but only once
The milkman shows me no response
Since my dearest husband left my side
People cross me in the street
Where previously they'd stop and speak
Since my dearest husband left my side

Those nuisance calls nobody wants
I answer with a brisk response
When you're lonely any voice will do
The message on the answer phone
The talking clock, the undertone
That maybe just like me she's sad and blue

The paperboy he takes good aim
He knows the lonely persons game
He can't get stuck on wrong side
Of the hedge
He knows my generation
Cling onto conversation
Like billy goat clings on to mountain edge