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 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