Autumn Leaves

through autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way
you always loved this time of year
loose fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
cos you're not here

From Forever Autumn by Jeff Wayne, Gary Osborne and Paul Vigrass. Although the original melody was written for a commercial (or at least that's what Wikipedia says) and Osborne and Vigrass then added lyrics and were 'big in Japan' with it, best known from the Justin Haywood version in Jeff Wayne's concept album War of the Worlds.

On the album, the journalist narrator (the wonderful voice of Richard Burton) describes the panic as the martians take over London
As I hastened through Covent Garden, Blackfriars and Billingsgate, more and more people joined the painful exodus. Sad, weary woman, their children stumbling and streaked with tears, their men bitter and angry, the rich rubbing shoulder with beggars and outcasts. Dogs snarled and whined, the horses bits were covered with foam?. And here and there were wounded soldiers, as helpless as the rest. We saw tripods wading up the Thames, cutting through bridges as though they were paper - Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Bridge?. One appeared above Big Ben.
Never before in the history of the world had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together. This was no disciplined march - it was a stampede - without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong. It was the beginning of the rout of civilisation, of the massacre of mankind.

From what I can see the second paragraph is more or less directly quoted from HG Wells' novel, although I cannot find the words of the first paragraph in the book.