My Opening Farewell lyrics

The lady stands before an open window

Staring so far away

She can almost feel the southern winds 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 along 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 every day

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 drawing is left there on the table

And a woman's silk is lying on the floor

I will keep them here if I were able

And lock her safe behind this open door

But suddenly, it's so clear to me

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

And now my kind words find their way back to me:

There's a train every day

Leaving either way

There's a world, you know

I've got a ways to go

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

This is my opening farewell

• Artist:Jackson Browne
• Album:Jackson Browne (1972)