If I'd only come and gone 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 rightin' 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 but merely parked my dusty boots oyutside your door
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Traced no footprints cross your polished hardwood floor
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I'd have left you in your doorway smiling drowsy at the dawn
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If I'd just come and gone
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And I'd be on a shining silver plane dippin' into Denver
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Or a schooner blowing down the Biscayne Bay
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And you'd be safely tucked away among the pleasures I'd remember
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Stead of laying 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 cavered on the other bedroom walls
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Heard the morning 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 have never loved me if I'd just come and gone
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If I'd Only Come And Gone
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| Tompall Glaser |
