There But For You Go I by Alan Jay Lerner Lyrics

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