My Opening Farewell - Bonnie Raitt

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