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