Del Amitri - You're Gone lyrics

I turned on a TV station and
Lip-read with the sound turned down
It was Pro-Celeb mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
With Esther Rantzen
Playing the one who's drowned

In a room next door a couple is fighting
But isn't that just one of love's charms
When moods change as fast as lightning
And fifteen minutes later you're
Lying in each other's arms and you're gone

They say that it's better to
Have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all
But if you sit down and count the cost of
All those losses there's no profit at all

This city gets crazy at Christmas
Glitter guards the crucifix all
Over the place
Its head gets too big for it's body
And it's mouth gets too big for it's face

And you're gone

Never throw away an old newspaper
Everyday's rich with it's current accounts
Prince visit's Philippines and
Parliament debates it back page, column five
Somebody's wedding's announced

Sunday night's the night for loving
And squeezing out the weekend's last drops
Sunday night's the night for forgiving
Maybe that's why they shut the shops
And you're gone

One day you wake up and all the pain you've
Given out gets returned
But I'm not sorry now
I've payed for what I've learned

And you're gone

I turned on a TV station and
Lip-read with the sound turned down
It was the Church of Christ
Playing the Price Is Right
Where everybody starves
While Leslie Crowther counts