It Can't Be Easy

I know it can't be easy

To watch me come and go as I please

I never thought myself to be free

Until I watched you watch me leave

My dear, I fear I cause you pain

Does it lessen the longer I'm away?

Oh, curse me and my western ways

Can't make me leave, can't make me stay

I've caught the thousand meter stare

And in my mind's eye you are there

Your shining eyes, your covered hair

Some days it's all too clear to bear

I fear this time I've gone too far

There's no road back to where you are

Show me the script, I'll read the part

Two tin cans stretched across the dark

I know it can't be easy

To be the one who does not leave

My dear, don't underestimate

The fear that your own mind can make

I know 'cause that's the path that mine takes

You turn the key, the engine wakes

And just like that I'm off again

The road grows wide, the road grows thin

Oh what a faulty heroine

I am again and again and again

I know it can't be easy

To be the one who does not leave