By The Time I Get to Phoenix

Nick Cave and the bad seeds

By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising
 And she'll find that note that I left hanging on the door
 And she'll laugh when she reads the part
 That says: "I'm leaving"
 Cause I've left that girl so many times before

And by the time I get to Albuquerque, she'll be working
 And she'll take off time just to give me a call
 And she'll hear that phone keep right on ringing and ringing
 On the wall, yeah oh, that's all

And by the time I make Oklahoma, she'll be sleeping
 She'll turn softly in her sleep and call my name out low
 And then she'll cry just to think
 That I'd really leave her, I left her
 But time after time after time I tried to tell her so
 But she just didn't know That I would really go
 That I would really go