Jackson Browne Lyrics

Album: Jackson Browne

MY OPENING FAREWELL Lyrics

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 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 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

In a locker 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 every day 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