Karaoké Forever Autumn Jeff Wayne & Justin Hayward

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 autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way

You always loved this time of year

Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now

'Cos you're not here

'Cos you're not here

'Cos 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 England

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

'Cos you're not here

'Cos you're not here

'Cos you're not here

As I hastened through

Covent Garden, Blackfriars and Billingsgate

More and more people joined the painful exodus

Sad, weary women

Their children, stumbling and streaked with tears

Their men, bitter and angry

The rich, rubbing shoulders 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

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 civilization of the massacre of mankind

A vast crowd buffeted me toward the already packed steamer

I looked up enviously at those safely on board 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 autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way

You always loved this time of year

Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now

'Cos you're not here

'Cos you're not here

'Cos you're not here