When She Wakes Up (And Finds Me Gone)

[Verse 1] With a trembling pen in hand I try the best I can To write all the reasons I cannot stay And I hope she will understand I cannot leave her like a man Because a man would never leave her this way A note of things I should have said Lays beside her sleeping head As I turn and make my way off in the night By the time the morning is breaking My heart will still be aching Every time I think of what I have left behind [Chorus] Because I do not want to see me leaving in her eyes And I cannot stand to watch her watch me make her cry And I do not know a right way I can do her wrong So I do not want to be here in the morning When she wakes up and finds me gone [Verse 2] It hurts to know how much she will hurt I have told myself things could be worse And I have convinced myself she is better off this way By the time she finds I am gone I will be a long, long way from home When she reads a note of things I could not say [Chorus] [Outro] Lord I do not want to be here in the morning When she wakes up and finds me gone