She's Leaving Home

Wednesday mornin' at 5 o'clock as the day begins

Silently closin' her bedroom door

Leavin' the note that she hoped would say more

She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutchin' her handkerchief

Quietly turnin' the backdoor key

Steppin' outside she is free

She (We gave her most of our lives)

Is leavin' (Sacrificed most of our lives)

Home (We gave her everything money could buy)

She's leavin' home after livin' alone

For so many years (So long)

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown

Picks up the letter that's lyin' there

Standin' alone at the top of the stairs

She breaks down and cries to her husband

Daddy our baby's gone (Ooh, ooh, ooh)

Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?

How could she do this to me?

Oh, she (We never thought of ourselves)

Is leavin' (Never a thought for ourselves)

Home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)

She's leavin' home after livin' alone

For so many years (So long)

(Ooh)

(Da-da, da-da, yeah)

(Woo, woo)

(Da, da, da-da)

Friday mornin' at 9 o'clock she is far away

(She is far away)

Waitin' to keep the appointment she made

Meetin' a man from the motor trade

She (What did we do that was wrong?)

Is havin' (We didn't know it was wrong)

Fun

Something inside that was always denied

For so many years

She's leavin' home

She's leavin' home (She's leavin' home)

Bye-bye (Goodbye, goodbye)

Ooh, bye-bye

Ooh

Don't forget, you'll always have a home