If I'd Only Come And Gone Lyrics - Dr. Hook

(Shel Silverstein) 

If I'd only come and gone 

The way I've always done with summer girls before 

Shared one night with you and never reached for more 

Then we wouldn't face this long and painful righting of the wrong 

If I'd just come and gone 

If I hadn't stayed so long 

And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door 

Tracked no footprints 'cross your polished hardwood floor 

If I'd have left you in your doorway smilin' drowsily at the dawn 

If I'd just come and gone 

Then I'd be on a shinin' silver plane dippin' into Denver 

Or a schooner blowin' down The Biscayne Bay 

You'd be safely tucked away among the pleasure I'd remember 

'Stead of lyin' here beside me fearin' restless thoughts inside me 

That might awaken with the breakin' of each new day 

If you'd only stopped to read 

Cold hard words I carved on other bedroom walls 

And heard the mornin' coffee truths I told 'em all 

I'd still be on your lips like some unfinished half-remembered song 

You'd never have loved me if I'd just come and gone 

If I'd only come and gone 

If I'd only come and gone 

If I'd only come and gone 

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