Say Goodbye Lyrics
The sun is the only thing shining,
Not a cloud in the sky.
No hint of you.
Never hearing your best secrets.
And your mind with all its witty jokes,
Your hand restless, reaching for another smoke.
Can't believe your wanting to go,
'Cause I just don't know how to make myself
Let you go.
A simple way to say goodbye.
I'm not the kind for regret.
Was there something I wanted to forget?
Either way you'd already made up your mind.
Shut your eyes and believe that it will take.
Though it's hard with these doubts, I know with no doubt,
That you're resting somewhere great.
Can't believe your wanting to go,
'Cause I just don't know how to make myself
Let you go.
A simple way to say goodbye.
I'm not the kind for regret.
Was there something I wanted to forget?
Either way you'd already made up your mind.
(There's three members of this group and this particular song was written by Doris Muramatsu.)
This song makes me think of my grandmother. She died a few months ago after a lengthy illness and like the song says I really think she was wanting to go. (but, now "I know with no doubt, that you're resting somewhere great")
I beat myself up think about this now and it's sort well said in the second stanza, there was so many times I could have been talking to her and hearing all her stories and wisdom, but often I would just put my iPod on and basically ignore her. I don't know why I thought she would always be there, I don't why it's so easy to take people for granted; it's like I always lived with her or near her, I was such a fool. I wish I could have done differently but I am glad for the time I had with her. And this song makes me think of her and reminds me to spend as much time as I can with the ones I love now, because we're never guaranteed the next moment.
I think the person she's singing about committed suicide, and this song deals with the fallout from that person's decision.
This song will always be special to me... And make me bawl my eyes out... I was introduced to it by a friend before his passing and I played it at this friend's memorial service... I was asked to say a few words since I was a close friend (he had helped me decide to come out of the closet...), but I couldn't quite articulate anything in words.... Given that I'm currently in music school (as a flute music ed major) and music's ALWAYS been my best form of expression, I figured out how the chords and such are, created a piano part and played it on a piano while crying my way thru the melody. This friend was 19 years old when he committed suicide. He had just come out as a homosexual a year earlier, his junior year of high school and had just been accepted to the University I am currently at for music (as a composition/Theory major with a minor in education).... Today is the four year anniversary of my friend's death. And this song is just repeating thru my head like there's no tomorrow... Doris wrote such a beautiful song....