Tim McGraw
"When She Wakes Up (And Finds Me Gone)"


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