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If This Is Goodbye Lyrics
My famous last words are laying around in tatters,
sounding absurd, whatever I try,
but I love you, and that's all that really matters,
if this is goodbye, if this is goodbye.
The bright shining sun would light up the way before me
you were the one made me feel I could fly
and I love you, whatever is waiting for me,
if this is goodbye, if this is goodbye.
Who knows how long we got
or what we're made out of?
Who knows if there's a plan or not?
There is our love, I know there is our love.
My famous last words,
could never tell the story,
spinning unheard in the dark of the sky,
but I love you and this is our glory,
if this is goodbye, if this is goodbye
if this is goodbye, if this is goodbye.
sounding absurd, whatever I try,
but I love you, and that's all that really matters,
if this is goodbye, if this is goodbye.
you were the one made me feel I could fly
and I love you, whatever is waiting for me,
if this is goodbye, if this is goodbye.
or what we're made out of?
Who knows if there's a plan or not?
There is our love, I know there is our love.
could never tell the story,
spinning unheard in the dark of the sky,
but I love you and this is our glory,
if this is goodbye, if this is goodbye
if this is goodbye, if this is goodbye.
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mr. Tambourine Man On May 10, 2006
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I saw Mark Knopfler perform this on a TV show. He described that there was a complilation of the voice mail messages from the people trapped inside the World Trade Center towers. Literally, if these are the last words you would leave for a loved one, what would say? These people may or may not have known their fate...but a desperate attempt to say "I love you". So hauntingly beautiful!
Haunting lyrics, particularly if rerencing the World Trade Centre tragedy. His duet with Emmylou Harris is simply beautiful.