If I'd only come and gone   The way I'd 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 only come and gone.      If I hadn't stayed so long   But merely parked my dusty boots   Outside your door...   Tracked no footprints 'cross   Your polished hardwood floor.   I'd have left you in your doorway   Smilin' drowsy at the dawn...   If I'd only come and gone.      And I'd be on a shinin' silver plane   Dippin' into Denver.   Or on a schooner blowin' down   To Biscayne Bay.   And 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 have never loved me   If I'd only come and gone.