How To Say Goodbye - a love song written and performed by Andy Brook
This is, purely and simply, a love song, about the strength of a special bond and the pain of losing it too early in life.
How To Say Goodbye is my entry for the 2024 Home Composed Song Contest, which takes place in December, online from Ukraine.
Music and lyrics: Andy Brook
Vocals: Andy Brook, Andrea Tyler
Guitar and bass: Alex Bonanno
Drums: Paolo Conte
HOW TO SAY GOODBYE
When I promised I would love you
Until the very end of time
Did you take me at my word
Or just assume I was spinning a line?
I had a reputation; I was always teasing you
But on this one occasion
Every word was true
You helped me to be
The best that I could be
You showed me sweet, beautiful things
That I never thought that I would see
You made me laugh
You even taught me how to cry
But you never showed me
How to say goodbye
As the days turned into weeks
Turned into months, the years flew by
And we built our home around us
Beneath an endless, clear blue sky
Storm clouds in the distance,
They never ever seemed to blow our way
I promised you ‘forever’,
When forever was far away
You helped me to be
The best that I could be
You showed me sweet, beautiful things
That I never thought that I would see
You made me laugh
You even taught me how to cry
But you never showed me
How to say goodbye
I want to make you proud
With everything I do
So I will teach myself
Then I can be a teacher too
And if I hesitate, as I so often do
I’ll close my eyes and think of you
Because you helped me to be
The best that I could be
You showed me sweet, sweet, beautiful things
That I never thought that I could see
You made me laugh
You even taught me how to cry
But you never showed me how to say goodbye
You made me laugh
Now all I seem to do is cry
Is it time for me to learn to say goodbye?