(Shel Silverstein)
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If I'd only come and gone
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The way I've always done with summer girls before
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Shared one night with you and never reached for more
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Then we wouldn't face this long and painful righting of the wrong
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If I'd just come and gone
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If I hadn't stayed so long
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And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door
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Tracked no footprints 'cross your polished hardwood floor
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If I'd have left you in your doorway smilin' drowsily at the dawn
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If I'd just come and gone
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Then I'd be on a shinin' silver plane dippin' into Denver
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Or a schooner blowin' down The Biscayne Bay
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You'd be safely tucked away among the pleasure I'd remember
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'Stead of lyin' here beside me fearin' restless thoughts inside me
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That might awaken with the breakin' of each new day
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If you'd only stopped to read
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Cold hard words I carved on other bedroom walls
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And heard the mornin' coffee truths I told 'em all
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I'd still be on your lips like some unfinished half-remembered song
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You'd never have loved me if I'd just come and gone
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If I'd only come and gone
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If I'd only come and gone
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If I'd only come and gone
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(c) Tro-Essex Music Ltd.
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If I'd Only Come and Gone
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| Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show |
