Baby stands before that open window looking so far away
He can almost feel the southern winds blow
Gently touching his restless day
He turns from his window to me
Sad smile his apology sad eyes reaching to the door
Daylight loses to another evening and still he spares me the word
goodbye
He sits alone beside me fighting his 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 his troubled mind
So I'm offering these to him as if to be kind
There's a train every day leaving either way
There's a world you know there's a way to go and
You'll soon be gone it's just as well this is my opening farewell
A child's drawings left on the table and a woman's silk lying on the
floor
I would keep them here if I were able
To lock you safe behind this open door
But suddenly it's so clear to me
That I asked you to see what you may never see
And now my kind words find their way back to me
There's a train every day leaving either way
There's a world you know got a way to go and
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
He can almost feel the southern winds blow
Gently touching his restless day
He turns from his window to me
Sad smile his apology sad eyes reaching to the door
Daylight loses to another evening and still he spares me the word
goodbye
He sits alone beside me fighting his 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 his troubled mind
So I'm offering these to him as if to be kind
There's a train every day leaving either way
There's a world you know there's a way to go and
You'll soon be gone it's just as well this is my opening farewell
A child's drawings left on the table and a woman's silk lying on the
floor
I would keep them here if I were able
To lock you safe behind this open door
But suddenly it's so clear to me
That I asked you to see what you may never see
And now my kind words find their way back to me
There's a train every day leaving either way
There's a world you know got a way to go and
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