Six or seven hours ago   Seemed the only thing to do   Was head out on the open road   And find anywhere else I wouldn't find you   Through the window of the room   Neon flashes “vacancy”   Brighter than the quarter moon   And colder inside than I thought it would be   With all these miles behind me   All those reasons why   Fade into my memory   This side of goodbye   This side of goodbye   Sittin' on a single bed   Silent television glows   I'm looking back and up ahead   At what it all was and where it all goes   Oh, why'd we have to drift apart   A little further every year   And why'd we take a smile to heart   Not nearly as deep as any one tear   With all these miles behind me   All those reasons why why why   Fade into my memory   This side of goodbye   This side of goodbye   Reaching out was hard somehow for so long   But easy now if you were here or just picked up the phone   With all these miles behind me   All those reasons why   Fade into my memory   This side of goodbye   This side of goodbye