My Opening Farewell

[Verse 1]

The lady stands before an open window

Staring so far away

She can almost feel the southern wind blow

Almost touching her restless day

[Refrain]

She turns from her window to me

Sad smile, her apology

Sad eyes reaching to the door

[Verse 2]

Daylight loses to another evening

And still she spares me the word "goodbye"

And sits alone beside me, fighting her feelings

Struggles to speak, but in the end, can only cry

[Refrain]

Suddenly, it's so hard to find

The sound of the words to speak her troubled mind

So I'm offering these to her as if to be kind

[Chorus]

There's a train every day leaving either way

There's a world, you know

There's a way to go

And you'll soon be gone, that's just as well

This is my opening farewell

[Verse 3]

A child's drawing's left there on the table

And a woman's silk lying on the floor

And I would keep them here if I were able

And lock her safe behind this open door

[Refrain]

But suddenly, it's so clear to me

That I'd ask her to see what she may never see

And now my kind words find their way back to me

[Chorus]

There's a train every day leaving either way

There's a world, you know

You got a ways to go

And I'll soon believe it's just as well

This is my opening farewell