When She Leaves Me

When she leaves me
It will be a cloudy day
There'll be a little rain
A few patches of blue sky
And trains on the Northern line will be delayed because of signal failure
And children will dream of the weekend
And my neighbor's cat will sit on my back porch

When she leaves me
I'll be wearing scruffy trainers
With paint on the side
And mud caked underneath
I'll have some mild toothache on the right side of my mouth
And I'll probably need a shave
The government will say they didn't do something that they probably
Actually did
And Mark might phone me like he does each day and I might pretend to be
Not in

But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
I will not try to understand

When she leaves me
The rusty car outside my house will still be there
With four parking tickets and a busted windscreen
And at midday I might take a walk, stretch my legs, get some air, feel

The wind
I will see the retarded girl with the baseball cap
Who walks up and down the market with a bunch of plastic flowers
I will eat in a greasy spoon, regret it, then walk home

But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
I will not try to understand