There But For You Go I Lyrics

Alan Jay Lerner There But For You Go I

Tommy
 This is hard to say, but as I wandered through the lea,
 I felt for just a fleeting moment that I suddenly was free of being lonely.
 Then I closed my eyes and saw the very reason why.
 I saw a man with his head bowed low.
 His heart had no place to go.
 I looked and I thought to myself with a sigh:
 There but for you go I.
 I saw a man walking by the sea,
 Alone with the tide was he.
 I looked and I thought as I watched him go by:
 There but for you go I.
 Lonely men around me, trying not to cry,
 Till the day you found me, there among them was I.
 I saw a man who had never known a love that was all his own.
 I thought as I thanked all the stars in the sky:
 There, but for you, go I.