Goodbye My Lover Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bgeno 

Cover art for Goodbye My Lover lyrics by James Blunt

I can't listen to this song.

When I was graduating high school I was dating a girl two years younger than me. In the weeks leading up to me leaving for school (three hours away from home), I had decided that we were going to break up because I waned to meet new people and all that stuff.

This is the song she asked me to listen to. I cried.

I went to school and within a week I changed my mind. I couldn't bare to be without her. I couldn't bare to not have her in my life. She was a wreck over the breakup, and I really hated to see her in so much pain. I still wanted to be with her. I loved her. So we decided to try a long distance relationship.

We made it through my freshman year with few problems. I was 100% faithful and assume she was the same.

My sophomore year was a different story. One thing after another went wrong. She hated my friends, my friends hated her, she didn't like that I spent time with other girls (nothing she needed to worry about)... all that stuff. She said she didn't have strong feelings for me anymore.

We finally decided it was best to break it off.

I honestly just assumed we'd get back together in the near future. But she was on to a new guy within a month.

She broke up with him within a year, but she and I never really talked much again. I hear from her every once in a while, and I make an attempt every once in a while to be friends (because we were before and during our relationship), but I just can't bare to see her or talk to her and not be with her.

So, now, the tables have turned. It's been over a year and a half since we ended our two year relationship. And this is the song I wish she would listen to in order to hear my feelings.