If I`d Only Come and Gone

<br>(Shel Silverstein)<br><br>If I`d only come and gone<br>The way I`ve always done with summer girls before<br>Shared one night with you and never reached for more<br>Then we wouldn`t face this long and painful righting of the wrong<br>If I`d just come and gone<br><br>If I hadn`t stayed so long<br>And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door<br>Tracked no footprints `cross your polished hardwood floor<br>If I`d have left you in your doorway smilin` drowsily at the dawn<br>If I`d just come and gone<br><br>Then I`d be on a shinin` silver plane dippin` into Denver<br>Or a schooner blowin` down The Biscayne Bay<br>You`d be safely tucked away among the pleasure I`d remember<br>`Stead of lyin` here beside me fearin` restless thoughts inside me<br>That might awaken with the breakin` of each new day<br><br>If you`d only stopped to read<br>Cold hard words I carved on other bedroom walls<br>And heard the mornin` coffee truths I told `em all<br>I`d still be on your lips like some unfinished half-remembered song<br>You`d never have loved me if I`d just come and gone<br><br>If I`d only come and gone<br>If I`d only come and gone<br>If I`d only come and gone<br><br>(c) Tro-Essex Music Ltd.