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 paper goin' into town

And havin' gotten through the editorial, 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've 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 seventh 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 5:00 I must've 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 paper 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 o'clock 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, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn't 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 one by Marylin French 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 cuddled up

For yet another night

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

The day before you came