Jackson Browne - My Opening Farewell lyrics

A lady stands before an open window<br>Staring so far away<br>She can almost feel the southern wind blow<br>Almost touching her restless day<br><br>She turns from her window to me<br>Sad smile her apology<br>Sad eyes reaching to the door<br><br>Daylight loses to another evening<br>And still she spares me the word goodbye<br>And sits alone beside me fighting her feelings<br>Struggles to speak but in the end can only cry<br><br>Suddenly it's so hard to find<br>The sound of the words to speak her troubled mind<br>So I'm offering these to her as if to be kind:<br>There's a train everyday leaving either way<br>There's a world, you know<br>There's a way to go<br>And you'll soon be gone -- that's just as well<br>This is my opening farewell<br><br>A child's drawings left there on the table<br>And a woman's silk lying on the floor<br>And I would keep them here if I were able<br>Lock her safe behind this open door<br><br>But suddenly it's so clear to me<br>That I'd asked her to see what she may never see<br>And now my kind words find their way back to me<br>There's a train everyday leaving either way<br>There's a world, you know<br>You got a way's to go<br>And I'll soon believe -- it's just as well<br>This is my opening farewell