By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Lyrics

You know, sometimes when you're in love Two people can grow apart You find yourself waking up and wondering: When did all that sweetness go? When did we stop noticing each other And smiling, and appreciating each other At the end of every single day? And even though your heart is filled with just as much love for them, as the day you met You find yourself feeling loneliness, whenever you're together Mmm, heh And you begin to wonder: why am I still holding on? And maybe, you've even asked your lover Once, twice, three times even: "Hey baby, what's wrong?" And he just looked back at you and said "Oh, nothing wrong baby, I still love you" But inside, you know something's changed And though you don't want to admit it Somewhere deep inside you know, it's time to move on It's time to breathe again, time to get back to yourself And start your life brand new And you know it's gonna hurt a while But you know, you've already been sad far too long And it's, it's time to spread those wings and fly And then comes the day - a beautiful, sunny morning When you wake up, and something inside you says: "This is the day." Yeah... Oh, whoo... By the time I get to Phoenix he'll be risin' He'll find the note I left hangin' on the door And he'll laugh when he reads the part that says I'm leavin' 'Cause I've left that man so many times before And by the time I make Albuquerque he'll be workin' He'll probably stop at lunch, just to give me a call He's gonna hear that phone, keep right on ringin', ringin' and ringin' Off the wall, that's all By the time I make Oklahoma he'll be sleepin' He's gonna turn softly, and I know, he'll call my name out low And he's gonna cry, just to think, I'd really really really leave him Oh, though time and time after time, I've tried to tell him so But he just didn't know I would really go But I had to leave you, darlin' I had to leave it It hurt my very soul Bye-bye, baby I had to leave you, darlin' It hurt so bad