I'm Leaving, Elaine

Last Sunday morning as the coffee was brewing

I heard his key in the door

He walks in the kitchen with candy and flowers

And says we should try just once more

Now I love him, I do, but it really is true

I don't want to play this old game

Where we kiss and we make up

Then quarrel and break up

The outcome is always the same

When he says

I'm leaving, Elaine

I ain't coming back

I'm going for good this time

Don't try to stop me

Do you hear me, Elaine?

I mean it, I've made up my mind

Yes, I'm leaving, Elaine

I ain't coming back

I'm going for good this time

When I walk out that door

You'll be sorry, Elaine

You lost me when you crossed that line

If I were a man, he says, I'd understand

But I understand only too well

Half of him wants to stay home here with me

The other half wants to raise hell

Now I don't really mind if he cuts loose sometimes

But whatever I say I'll be wrong

He tells me I'll miss him, I probably would

If only just once he'd stay gone

When he says

I'm leaving, Elaine

I ain't coming back

I'm going for good this time

Don't try to stop me

Do you hear me, Elaine?

I mean it, I've made up my mind

Yes, I'm leaving, Elaine

I ain't coming back

I'm going for good this time

When I walk out that door

You'll be sorry, Elaine

You lost me when you crossed that line