Bye Bye Love
Farewell to Love: Exploring Heartbreak in Ray Charles' Melodic Goodbye
Lyrics
Bye bye love
Parting with love
Bye bye sweet happiness, hello emptiness
Saying farewell to the joy, welcoming emptiness
I think I'm-a gonna cry-y
Expressing emotional pain, tears likely
Bye bye love, bye bye sweet caress, hello emptiness
Bidding farewell to love and affection, facing emptiness
I feel like I could di-ie
Feeling so distressed that death seems possible
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
A final farewell to the love
There goes my baby with-a someone new
Observing former lover with a new partner
She sure looks happy, I sure am blue
Noticing the happiness of the ex-lover, personal sadness
She was my baby till he stepped in
Former lover now belongs to someone else
Goodbye to romance that might have been
Acknowledging the end of a potential romantic future
CHORUS
Repeating the chorus
I'm-a through with romance, I'm a-through with love
Rejecting romance and love altogether
I'm through with a'countin' the stars above
No longer counting stars, rejecting celestial symbolism of love
And there's the reason that I'm so free
Explaining the reason for newfound freedom
My lovin' baby is through with me
Former lover has ended the relationship
CHORUS
Repeating the chorus
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
A final goodbye to the love
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
Repeating the farewell
FADE: Bye bye my love goodby-eye
Fading out, emphasizing the goodbye
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
Repeating the fading farewell
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