Pete Atkin - Ballad Of An Upstairs Window lyrics

Atkin I was going to the pictures with my girl at 7.30, got there first and started queueing on my own By 9.15 she still had not arrived and so I walked around the block and then I thought I'd telephone I let the phone keep ringing for ten minutes perhaps a quarter of an hour then concluded she's not home I thought I'd walk around the block again but soon got fed up wandering aimlessly around all on my own It was then the thought occurred to me she might have been there all the time just let the phone keep ringing on its own In order that I might be led to think that she'd gone out or for some other reason wasn't there at home Now if for any reason this should prove to be the case I couldn't help but wonder what the cause might be Perhaps her budgie Goldie had escaped out of the window but in any case I thought I'd go and see Well the truth is by the time I'd caught the bus down at the corner and arrived the time was nearly half-past ten So in order that I shouldn't seem a fool I went into the phone box just outside her house and phoned again Just as I dialled the number I perceived an upstairs window in her house become illumined by a light Immediately I replaced the receiver on the bracket and once more I stepped outside into the night Now I knew her mum and dad had gone to Scotland for the weekend and that she was in the house all on her own So I presumed it was her brother's motorbike what stood outside the gate although it's eighteen months since he left home I felt compelled to cogitate on what was most appropriate in circumstances previously unknown I reasoned that if she felt tired she wouldn't thank me if I woke her up and so I caught the bus back home