With a tremblin' 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

Cuz a man would never leave her this way



A note of things I should have said

Lays besude her sleepin' head

As I turn and make my way off in the night

By the time the motning's breakin'

My heart will still be achin'

Every time I think about what I left behind



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Cuz I don't wanna see me leavin' in her eyes

And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry

And I don't know the right way I can do her wrong

So I don't wanna be here in the mornin'

When she wakes up and finds me gone





It hurts to know how mush 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 the note of things I couldn't say



Lord, I don't wanna be here in the mornin'

When she wakes up and finds me gone