By the Time We Get to Phoenix Songtext
von Nick Cave & 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