With a trembling pen in hand I try the best I can To write all the reasons I can't stay And I hope she'll understand I can't leave her like a man 'Cause a man would never leave her this way But, no, the 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's breaking My heart will still be aching Every time I think of what I've left behind 'Cause I don't wanna see me leaving in her eyes And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry And I don't know the right way I can do her wrong So I don't wanna be here in the morning When she wakes up and finds me gone It hurts to know how much she'll hurt Told myself things could be worse And I convinced myself she's better off this way By the time she finds I'm gone I'll be a long, long way from home When she reads the note of things I couldn't say 'Cause I don't wanna see me leaving in her eyes And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry And I don't know the right way I can do her wrong So I don't wanna be here in the morning When she wakes up and finds me gone Lord, I don't wanna be here in the morning When she wakes up and finds me gone, oh Ooh, yeah