Since My Dearest Husband - Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott

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

Means so little since he

Left my side

And 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

Steward’s inquiries

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

Well, people cross me in the street

When previously, they’d stop and speak

Since my dearest husband

Left my side

Those nuisance calls nobody wants

I answer them with brisk response

When you’re lonely, any

Voice will do

The message on the answer phone

The talking clock, the undertone

Maybe just like me, she’s

Sad and blue

There were questions in Parliament

Steward’s inquiries

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 paper boy, he takes good aim

He knows the lonely person’s game

You can’t get stuck on wrong

Side of the hedge

He knows my generation

Cling onto conversation

Like billy goat clings onto

Mountain edge, edge

There were questions in Parliament

Steward’s inquiries

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