My Opening Farewell

Baby   stands before that open window looking so far   away   He can almost feel the southern winds blow   Gently touching his restless day    He turns from his window to me   Sad smile his apology sad eyes reaching to the door   /u>                                                   Daylight loses to another evening and still  he spares me the word goodbye He sits alone beside me fighting his 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 his  troubled mind   So I’m offering these to him 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 it’s just as well   this is my opening farewell   u>                                                    A child’s drawings left on the table  and a woman’s silk lying on the floor   I would keep them here if I were able   To lock you safe behind this open  door   But suddenly it’s so clear to me   That I asked you to see what you 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       got a way to go and You’ll soon be gone it’s just as well   this is my opening farewell         From Bonnie Raitt "Sweet Forgiveness"       Warner Brothers 1977       Atlantic Music Corp/Open Window Music 1970