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