She's Leaving Home

Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins

She's silently closing her bedroom door

Just leaving a note that she hoped would say more

She goes downstairs to the kitchen

Clutching her handkerchief

She's quietly turning the backdoor key

She's stepping outside, and she is free

She, we gave her most of our lives

Is leaving, sacrificed most of our lives, home

We gave her everything money could buy

For so many years

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown

She picks up the note that is lying there

She's standing alone at the top of the stairs

She breaks down and cries to her husband

"Daddy, daddy, our baby, she's gone!

How could she treat me so thoughtlessly

Tell me, why would she do this thing to me?"

She, we never thought of ourselves

Is leaving, never a thought for ourselves, home

We struggled hard all of our lives to get by

Oh, yes we did

Struggled for so many years

It's friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away

She's got away

She's waiting to keep an appointment that she's made

She's meeting a man from the motor trade

She, what did we do that was wrong

Is leaving, we never knew that we did anything wrong, home

Fun is the one thing that money cannot buy

Something inside that was always denied for so many years

Why should she treat us so thoughtlessly?

Why should she do this to me?

Our baby's leaving home

I've been living alone for so many years

Bye-bye, oh bye-bye, goodbye