for a rainy afternoon

Are you free to meet on Friday I'll pick the place you set the time He said he'd pack me a bag if I promised to stay in line Bailed and so we push it off till Sunday The new job starts in a week I've been filling the time and the days we didn't speak And so you pour the tea instead of looking at me In a cafe on a road in a place we've now stopped with In posh cashmere coats instead of hands round our throats We'll be friends just until it's goodbye Then strangers again in the blink of an eye You know I thought that this might happen But I felt more like a distraction Or a book you'd save for a rainy afternoon You know I thought that we'd maybe do this But I can't pretend I wasn't clueless After goodbye from Southfields on a rainy afternoon You'll ask and I'll say that the gig went great But I played all the sad songs by mistake And I cried at the end but I try to pretend it's not about you When you asked if I was alright getting home I lied cause at that point I just wanted to go I caught the bus back alone went past the pub I wish I hadn't shown you Where you spilt your G&T cause you were looking at me And you'd choke at the joke I'd cry laugh as I made it Your afternoon smoke hit the back of my throat Stayed on the train just to hold off goodbye Now we're strangers again in the blink of an eye You know I thought that this might happen But I felt more like a distraction Or a book you'd save for a rainy afternoon You know I thought that we'd maybe do this But I can't pretend I wasn't clueless After goodbye from Southfields on a rainy afternoon (Just a book you'd save for a rainy afternoon) (Goodbye from Southfields) (On a rainy afternoon)