It's So Hard to Say Goodbye
Navigating Love's Crossroads: It's So Hard to Bid Farewell
Lyrics
As you pack your things to leave again
Expressing the emotional difficulty of watching someone pack to leave again.
I feel it, wanting you to change your mind
Feeling a desire for the person to reconsider their decision.
Or maybe it's good that you go tonight
Reflecting on the ambivalence of whether it's good for the person to leave tonight.
There have been many times before but somehow
Acknowledging past instances of contemplating separation.
We find reason why we shouldn't go our separate ways
Highlighting the tendency to find reasons to stay together despite challenges.
Then go and cause eachother pain
Recognizing a pattern of causing each other pain despite the desire to stay.
This can really be the end, how do I erase
Questioning if this could truly be the end and expressing the difficulty of letting go.
All of this love I have inside, I can't bare to see you cry
Struggling with the internal conflict of deep love and not wanting to see the person cry.
And as the door began to close on us
Observing the closure of the door, contemplating whether to intervene or let go.
Do I just sit and let you go
Questioning whether to passively watch the departure or actively try to stop it.
Or do I call out for you
Contemplating whether to call out for the person leaving.
I'm so confused, tell me what to do
Expressing confusion and seeking guidance on what to do.
It's so hard to say goodbye
Emphasizing the difficulty in saying goodbye.
Dry your eyes
Encouraging the person to dry their tears.
(girl I love you so)
Reaffirming love and expressing the hardship of parting.
It's so hard to say goodbye
Reiterating the difficulty of saying goodbye.
Girl don't cry
Urging the girl not to cry.
'cause baby girl you don't have to leave, no
Affirming that the girl doesn't have to leave.
I didn't mean to waste your time
Acknowledging unintentional time-wasting and realizing the partner's unhappiness.
But I've known for quite a while you weren't happy
Admitting awareness of the partner's discontent for a while.
With me and I've had days I wanted to leave
Recalling personal moments of wanting to leave but being afraid of the consequences.
But to think about one day or one night without you
Expressing fear of the prospect of being without the person.
Baby it's the fear of losing love
Identifying the fear as rooted in the potential loss of love.
The kind of love that you need so much
Describing the essential and much-needed nature of the love in question.
I know you will be alright, you'll be fine
Expressing confidence in the partner's ability to move on and be fine.
Get a new man someone who helps you live all your fantasies
Suggesting finding a new partner who fulfills fantasies and needs.
But girl I don't it's me
Expressing uncertainty if he is the right person for that role.
Before you go can I hold you
Seeking physical closeness before the departure.
Wipe away your tears, console you
Expressing a desire to comfort and console the departing person.
Make you know that my love was true
Affirming the truth of the love shared with the person.
It's so hard baby saying goodbye to you
Summarizing the difficulty of saying goodbye to the person.
How could you just look me in the eye
Questioning the sincerity of the partner's gaze while parting.
Forgetting about all the things that were right
Reflecting on the selective memory of positive aspects in the relationship.
How could you just let me go when you know
Expressing the pain of being let go despite the intense love.
(all this love I had for you)
Reiterating the immense love that was held for the departing person.
All of the promises we made
Recalling the promises made in the relationship, both good and bad.
The good and the bad, we vowed that we'd stay
Affirming the commitment to stay together through thick and thin.
You would have known that I didn't want to go
Expressing the desire for the partner to have realized the reluctance to leave.
(if you had taken the time to just realize)?
Pondering if the partner had taken the time to understand the reluctance.
But you just let me leave baby
Expressing the partner's decision to let the speaker leave.
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