If I'd Only Come and Gone

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 shining 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
 (Well, come and gone, come and gone)