Rehearsals For Departure Lyrics - Singles - Damien Jurado

I'll come down tomorrow morning 

And meet you at our new location 

In front of City Bookstore 

Across the street from the railway station 

She tells me how her night was spent 

Nursing coffee and cigarettes 

You waited til your husband left 

To pack your things and off you went 

He wouldn't notice that you'd left 

Til morning when the drink wore off 

He stayed out all night with his friends 

Never to return again 

In front of City Bookstore 

Across the street from the railway station 

You show up with your suitcase 

Ten dollars and a sad expression 

She tells me that it's all over now 

She's done her time and now she's out 

From the prison that she calls a house 

Where she stayed put while he went out 

She left him a note taped to the door 

Saying, "Babe I won't be back no more 

I can't find reasons for me to stay 

Married to you and your cheating ways." 

Walked her out to the train 

Couldn't hide my pain 

Or these tears that flow 

From my eyes like rain 

That September morning, 1959