The Day Before You Came

I must have left my house at 8:00 because I always do

My train, I'm certain, left the station just when it was due

I must have read the morning papers going into town

And having gotten through the editorials, no doubt I must have frowned

I must have made my desk around a quarter after 9:00

With letters to be read and heaps of papers waiting to be signed

I must have gone to lunch

At half past 12:00 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 second cigarette at half past 2:00

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 6:00, 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 papers then

Oh, yes, I'm sure my life was well within its usual frame

The day before you came

I must have opened my front door at 8:00 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 a single episode of House of Cards that I have failed to see

I must have gone to bed around a quarter after 10:00

I need a lot of sleep and so I like to be in bed by then

I must have read a while

The latest Margaret Atwood book or something in that style

It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim

The day before you came

And turning out the light

I must have yawned and settled in for yet another night

And rattling on the roof, I must have heard the sound of rain

The day before you came