If I'd Only Come And Gone

(Shel Silverstein)

If I'd only come and gone

The way I've 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 just come and gone

If I hadn't stayed so long

And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door

Tracked no footprints 'cross your polished hardwood floor

If I'd have left you in your doorway smilin' drowsily at the dawn

If I'd just come and gone

Then I'd be on a shinin' silver plane dippin' into Denver

Or a schooner blowin' down The Biscayne Bay

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 never have loved me if I'd just come and gone

If I'd only come and gone

If I'd only come and gone

If I'd only come and gone

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