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 rightin' of the wrong

If I'd just come and gone

If I hadn't stayed so long but merely parked my dusty boots oyutside your door

Traced no footprints cross your polished hardwood floor

I'd have left you in your doorway smiling drowsy at the dawn

If I'd just come and gone

And I'd be on a shining silver plane dippin' into Denver

Or a schooner blowing down the Biscayne Bay

And you'd be safely tucked away among the pleasures I'd remember

Stead of laying 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 cavered on the other bedroom walls

Heard the morning 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 just come and gone