Lyrics My Opening Farewell - Jackson Browne

My Opening Farewell

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