My Opening Farewell Lyrics - David Lindley

A lady stands before an open window 

Staring so far away 

She can almost feel the southern wind blow 

Almost touching her restless day 

She turns from her window to me 

Sad smile her apology 

Sad eyes reaching to the door 

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 

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 

There's a train everyday 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 

A child's drawings left there on the table 

And a woman's silk lying on the floor 

And I would keep them here if I were able 

Lock her safe behind this open door 

But suddenly it's so clear to me 

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

And now my kind words find their way back to me 

There's a train everyday leaving either way 

There's a world, you know 

You got a way's to go 

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

This is my opening farewell