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
    A note of things I should've 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 want to see me leaving in her eyes
  And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry
  And I don't know a right way I can do her wrong
  So I don't want to be here in the morning
  When she wakes up and finds me gone
    It hurts to know how much she'll hurt I've told myself things could be worse
  And I've 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 a note of things I couldn't say
    'Cause I don't want to see me leaving in her eyes
  And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry
  And I don't know a right way I can do her wrong
  So I don't want to be here in the morning
  When she wakes up and finds me gone
    Lord I don't want to be here in the morning
  When she wakes up and finds me gone