Forever Autumn

The homeless
Burdened with boxes and bundles containing their valuables All that was of value to me was in London
By the time I reached their little red brick house
Carrie and her father were gone
The summer sun is fading as the year grows old
And darker days are drawing near
The winter winds will be much colder
Now you're not here
I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky
And one by one they disappear
I wish that I was flying with them
Now you're not here
Like the sun through the trees you came to love me
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away
Through autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way
You always loved this time of year
Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
'Cause you're not here
'Cause you're not here
'Cause you're not here
Journalist：Fire suddenly leapt from house to house
The population panicked and ran and I was swept along with them
Aimless and lost without Carrie Finally I headed eastward for the ocean
And my only hope of survival：A boat out of England
Like the sun through the trees you came to love me
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away
A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes
As if to hide a lonely tear
My life will be forever autumn
'Cause you're not here
'Cause you're not here
'Cause you're not here
Journalist：As I hastened through Covent Garden
Blackfriars and Billingsgate
More and more people joined the painful exodus Sad
Weary women
Their children stumbling and streaked with tears
Their men bitter and angry
The rich rubbing shoulder with beggars and outcasts
Dogs snarled and whined
The horses' bits were covered with foam and here and there were wounded soldiers
As helpless as the rest We saw tripods wading up the Thames
Cutting through bridges as though they were paper
Waterloo Bridge
Westminster Bridge One appeared above Big Ben
Martians：Ulla
Journalist：Never before in the history of the world had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together
This was no disciplined March
It was a stampede
Without order and without a goal
Six million people
Unarmed and unprovisioned
Driving headlong It was the beginning of the rout of civilization
Of the massacre of mankind
A vast crowd buffeted me toward the already packed steamer I looked up enviously at those safely on board
Straight into the eyes of my beloved Carrie At sight of me she began to fight her way
Along the packed deck to the gangplank At that very moment it was raised
And I caught a last glimpse of her despairing face as the crowd swept me away from her
Like the sun through the trees you came to love me
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away
Through autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way
You always loved this time of year
Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
'Cause you're not here
'Cause you're not here
'Cause you're not here
Martians：Ulla
Journalist：The steamer began to move slowly away
But on the landward horizon appeared the silhouette of a fighting machine Another came
And another
Striding over hills and plunging far out to sea and blocking the exit of the steamer
Between them lay the silent
Grey Ironclad Thunder Child Slowly it moved towards shore then
With a deafening roar and whoosh of spray
It swung about and drove at full speed towards the waiting Martians