When you know it is the last time What can you say There are no words that can articulate Such a feeling
So we say Good bye, good bye We say good bye Good bye, good bye Good bye, good bye
By the time that I return there will be Nothing left but your paintings All those colors as you left them In the balmy breeze
To know the moment You had gone, gone, gone, gone To feel you there When I was far from home How the eyes of a father Can be seen in the face of his daughter
By the time that I return there will be Nothing left but possessions All that’s scattered as you left it dried out in the heat of the sun
Like an embrace Without the weight of arms To feel you there After you’d gone How the laugh of a mother Can be heard in the voice of a brother
Tell me what was it like Tell me what was it like To go from here To say farewell To leave this place For the great unknown
The ways we hold on to the past our shadows cast How the dancing of children Is lost as age takes over What a shame How we lose such things In the moving on and letting go
The ocean is the the color that you saw The ocean is the color that we’ll always be With or without your hands to paint it As I sang into the night sky I knew that you were stopping by To say goodbye Good bye, good bye Good bye, good bye Good bye, good bye