You're Gone Lyrics - Del Amitri

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 

And in the 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 

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 

And this city gets crazy at Christmas 

Glitter guards the crucifix all over the place 

Its head gets too big for its body 

And its mouth gets too big for its face 

And you're gone 

And you're gone 

Never throw away an old newspaper 

Every day's rich with its current accounts 

Prince visits Philippines and parliament debates it 

And back page, column five, somebody's wedding's announced 

And Sunday night's, the night for loving 

And squeezing out the weekend's last drops 

Yeah, Sunday night's the night for forgiving 

Maybe that's why they shut the shops 

And you're gone 

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 

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