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.