Dr. Hook - If I’d Only Come and Gone Lyrics

Songwriter: Shel Silverstein

Producer: Ron Haffkine

[Verse 1]
If I'd only come and gone
The way I've always done with summer girls before
Shared one night with you and never reached for more
Then we wouldn't face this long and painful righting of the wrong
If I'd just come and gone

[Verse 2]
If I hadn't stayed so long
And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door
Tracked no footprints 'cross your polished hardwood floor
If I'd have left you in your doorway smilin' drowsy at the dawn
If I'd just come and gone

[Bridge]
Then I'd be on a shinin' silver plane dippin' into Denver
Or a schooner blowin' down The Biscayne Bay
And you'll be safely tucked away among the pleasures I'd remember
'Stead of lyin' here beside me, fearin' restless thoughts inside me
That might awaken with the breakin' of each new day

[Verse 3]
If you'd only stopped to read
Cold hard words I carved on other bedroom walls
And heard the mornin' coffee truths, I told 'em all
I'd still be on your lips like some unfinished, half-remembered song
You'd never have loved me
If I'd just come and gone

[Outro]
If I'd only come and gone
If I'd only come and gone
If I'd only come and gone
(Come and gone, come and gone)

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