Goodbye

Embracing Goodbye: A Reflection on Loss and Unanswered Questions
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Lyrics

Occurred to me the other day

Reflecting on a recent realization

You been gone now a couple years

Acknowledging the absence for a couple of years

Well I guess it takes a while

Expressing that it takes time for someone to truly be forgotten

For someone to really disappear

Contemplating the process of disappearance

And I remember where I was

Recalling the moment when news about the person's departure was received

When the word came about you

Describing the circumstances surrounding the news

It was a day much like today

Setting the scene of a particular day

The sky was bright and wide and blue

Depicting the weather and atmosphere of that day


And I wonder where you are

Pondering the current whereabouts of the departed person

And if the pains ends when you die

Questioning whether the pain ceases after death

And I wonder if there was

Contemplating if there could have been a better way to say farewell

Some better way to say good-bye

Expressing uncertainty about the adequacy of the goodbye


Today my heart is big and sore

Describing the current emotional state as significant and painful

It's trying to put right through my skin

Metaphorically conveying the intensity of emotional pain

Won't see you anymore

Realizing the finality of not seeing the person anymore

I guess that's finally sinking in

Acknowledging the slow acceptance of the reality

'Cause you can't make somebody see

Asserting the inability to make others recognize inherent beauty

With the simple words you say

Highlighting the limitations of simple words in conveying beauty

All their beauty from within

Expressing frustration when others choose to ignore beauty

Sometimes they just look away

Observing the tendency of some to look away from inner beauty


And I wonder where you are

Repeating the contemplation of the departed person's whereabouts

And if the pains ends when you die

Reiterating the question about the end of pain after death

And I wonder if there was

Repeating the contemplation of a possible better way to say goodbye

Some better way to say good-bye

Expressing a lingering uncertainty about the farewell process

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