Don Williams Leaving Lyrics

Leaving Lyrics

Leaving For The Flatlands

Don Williams

Album: Flatlands



Sweetly flows the water from the mountain 

Softly falls the rain upon the leaves 

Gently blows the breeze among the cedars 

Quietly my heart is on its knees 

How could anything in all creation 

Be more beautiful than all I see 

With it all my heart is not rejoicing 

Because the one I love is not with me 



Somewhere in between us was a difference 

Not we or all this beauty could secure 

And I know now my heart will ache forever 

And I wonder if this mountain can endure



So l'm leavin'for the flatlands

Goin' back where I was conceived 

Goin' back where nobody knows the difference 

This mountain knows too much about me



I though it was written up in heaven 

That you would be with me and I with you 

Sun and moon and stars must feel the difference 

And they're wishin' there was somethin' they could do