When She Wakes Up (And Finds Me Gone)

With a trembling pen in hand I try the best I can
 To write all the reasons I can't stay
 And I hope she'll understand I can't leave her like a man
 'Cause a man would never leave her this way
 A note of things I should've said
 Lays beside her sleeping head
 As I turn and make my way off in the night
 By the time the morning's breaking
 My heart will still be aching
 Every time I think of what I've left behind
 'Cause I don't want to see me leaving in her eyes
 And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry
 And I don't know a right way I can do her wrong
 So I don't want to be here in the morning
 When she wakes up and finds me gone
 It hurts to know how much she'll hurt
 I've told myself things could be worse
 And I've convinced myself she's better off this way
 By the time she finds I'm gone
 I'll be a long, long way from home
 When she reads a note of things I couldn't say
 'Cause I don't want to see me leaving in her eyes
 And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry
 And I don't know a right way I can do her wrong
 So I don't want to be here in the morning
 When she wakes up and finds me gone
 Lord I don't want to be here in the morning
 When she wakes up and finds me gone