Cry baby boy, not tears of joy
The one you held is no longer your toy
She's got her new boots and her make up on
You can call her your friend
But not your lover again
She's made it clear as air that this affair is at an end
So what are you doing holding on?

Don't you see she's
Rare, precious and she's gone
She's rare, precious and she's gone

She was soft in your hands, now she's shattered your plans
I'm sympathetic but you've got to understand
You tried to squeeze her somewhere
She just don't belong
She was being sincere when she breathed in your ear
As long as there were stars in the night sky she'd be near
Even angels get it wrong!

Won't you see she's
Rare, precious and she's gone
She's rare, precious and she's gone

It's a subtle trap
Seeding guilt in her mind
But she ain't taking your crap
This time
Boy you're out on a line...

She's a queen among women, a child among queens
The finest thing that your lovesick eyes have ever seen
She's a rose without a thorn
She's a peach, she's a prize
A gift in disguise
She's graceful and colourful and when she grows
She'll be wise
But most of all my friend, she's gone
Gone, gone gone!

She's rare, precious and she's gone
Rare, precious and she's gone
Yes, she's rare, precious and she's gone
She's rare, precious and she's gone
Gone, gone gone...

• A Golden Age
• A Pagan Place
• A Rock in a Weary Land
• A Song for The Life
• Ahead Down The Highway
• All My Way Ireland
• All The Boys Love Carrie
• Anatomy of a Love Affair
• Barely Out of Teenage
• Beatles' Medley
• Behold The Sea
• Big Lover
• Billy Sparks
• Bleecker Street
• Blowing in The Wind
• Blues is My Business
• Born to Be Together
• Bring 'em All In
• Buckets of Rain
• Burlington Bertie & Accrington Stanley
• Bury My Heart
• Calling Back My Spirit
• Careful With That Melletron, Eugene
• Come Live With Me
• Coming in to Harbour
• Crown
• Custer's Blues
• Dancing Barefoot
• Drunken Head Blues
• Dumbing Down The World
• Everlasting Arms
• Experience Week Song
• Father
• Forever Young
• Girl from The North Country
• Going Back to Glasters
• Going to Paris
• Gulf Crisis Lullaby
• Heaven Gets Closer Every Day
• Higher Bound
• Higher in Time
• His Word is Not His Bond
• I Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm No More
• I Know She's in The Building
• I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
• I've Been in The Storm for You
• Iona Song
• Is She Conscious
• Isis
• Karma
• Killing My Heart
• King Electric
• King of London
• Kiss The Wind
• Late Train to Heaven
• Learning to Love Him
• Let It Happen
• Let It Loose
• Long Way to The Light
• Lost Highway
• Love Anyway
• Love That Kills
• Lucky Day Bad Advice
• Malediction
• Manifesto
• Martin Decent
• Mister Fox
• Mister Powers
• Mother Cluny
• Nectar
• Nobody 'cept You
• Oh Shenandoah
• One of Many Rescuers
• Only Heroes Live Forever
• Out of Control
• Personal
• Prince Medley
• Questions
• Rare, Precious & Gone
• Ready for The Monkey House
• Rock in The Weary Land
• Seaweed Shovelling Song
• She is So Beautiful
• Some of My Best Friends Are Trains
• Something Fantastic
• Song of The Mermaid
• Song of The Open Road
• Sunny Sailor Boy
• Sympathy for David Icke
• That's Not Enough
• The Charlatan's Lament
• The Lion of Love
• The Ways of Men
• The Wedding
• The Wind in The Wires
• Too Hot for Clean Head
• We Are Jonah
• What Do You Want Me to Do
• When Love Comes Tumbling
• Where Are You Now when I Need You?
• Why Look at The Moon
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken