Bonnie Raitt My Opening Farewell written by Jackson Browne
Freebo Bass,
Jeff Labes Keyboards
Will McFarlane Guitar
Bill Payne Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards,
Fred Tackett Guitar
Dennis Whitted Drums
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Baby stands before that open window looking so far away
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He can almost feel the southern winds blow
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Gently touching his restless day
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He turns from his window to me
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Sad smile his apology sad eyes reaching to the door
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Daylight loses to another evening and still he spares me the word
goodbye
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He sits alone beside me fighting his feelings
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Struggles to speak but in the end can only cry
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Suddenly it's so hard to find
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The sound of the words to speak his troubled mind
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So I'm offering these to him as if to be kind
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There's a train every day leaving either way
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There's a world you know there's a way to go and
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You'll soon be gone it's just as well this is my opening farewell
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A child's drawings left on the table and a woman's silk lying on the
floor
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I would keep them here if I were able
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To lock you safe behind this open door
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But suddenly it's so clear to me
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That I asked you to see what you may never see
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And now my kind words find their way back to me
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There's a train every day leaving either way
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There's a world you know got a way to go and
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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
