By The Time I Get To Phoenix Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

By the time I get to Phoenix he'll be risin' 

He'll find the note I left hangin' on his door 

And he'll laugh when he reads the part that says I'm leavin' 

'Cause I've left that man so many times before 

By the time I make Albuquerque he'll be workin' 

He'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call 

But he'll just hear that phone keep on ringin' 

Off the wall, that's all 

By the time I make Oklahoma he'll be sleepin' 

He'll turn softly and call my name out low 

And he'll cry just to think I'd really leave him 

Though time and time I've tried to tell him so 

Oh, he just didn't know I would really go 

I would really go