When She Wakes Up (And Finds Me Gone)

With a trembling pen in hand I try the best I can To write all the reasons I can't stay And I hope she'll understand I can't leave her like a man 'Cause a man would never leave her this way A note of things I should've said Lays beside her sleeping head As I turn and make my way off in the night By the time the morning's breaking My heart will still be aching Every time I think of what I've left behind 'Cause I don't want to see me leaving in her eyes And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry And I don't know a right way I can do her wrong So I don't want to be here in the morning When she wakes up and finds me gone It hurts to know how much she'll hurt I've told myself things could be worse And I've convinced myself she's better off this way By the time she finds I'm gone I'll be a long, long way from home When she reads a note of things I couldn't say 'Cause I don't want to see me leaving in her eyes And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry And I don't know a right way I can do her wrong So I don't want to be here in the morning When she wakes up and finds me gone Lord I don't want to be here in the morning When she wakes up and finds me gone