If I'd only come and gone

The way I'd always done

With summer girls before.

Shared one night with you

And never reached for more.

Then we wouldn't face this long

And painful righting of the wrong.

If I'd only come and gone.

If I hadn't stayed so long

But merely parked my dusty boots

Outside your door.

Tracked no footprints 'cross

Your polished hardwood floor.

I'd have left you in your doorway

Smilin' drowsy at the dawn.

If I'd only come and gone.

And I'd be on a shinin' silver plane

Dippin' into Denver.

Or on a schooner blowin' down

The Biscayne Bay.

And you'd be safely tucked away

Among the pleasure I'd remember

'Stead of lyin' here beside me

Fearin' restless thoughts inside me

That might awaken with the breakin'

Of each new day.

If you'd only stopped to read

Cold hard words I carved

On other bedroom walls.

And heard the mornin' coffee truths

I told 'em all.

I'd still be on your lips

Like some unfinished

Half-remembered song.

You'd have never loved me

If I'd only come and gone.