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