Recordings: (Piano/Guitar, Guitar Mix, Acoustic Vocal, and Solo Piano)
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Links to older recordings:
Saying Goodbye Home Recording 2017
SAYING GOODBYE INSTRUMENTAL 2014
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Links to other stories about this song:
#181 I CAN’T LIVE IN THE PAST BECAUSE SOMETHING WENT WRONG
#282 HOW HARD IT IS JUST SAYING GOODBYE
#360 I KNEW LOSING YOU WOULDN’T BE EASY
SAYING GOODBYE
Copyright 2018 by Judy Unger
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So few words, and so much to say
A part of me is gone; it left with you that day
Now it’s all over, and the flowers have all died
You’ll never be replaced and the hole remains inside
I knew losing you wouldn’t be easy; I always expected to cry
But I should have known; how hard it is just saying goodbye
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A bad dream, just another nightmare
I wish that I’d wake up, and somehow you’d still be there
But I’m praying softly; I’m trying to be strong
I can’t live in the past, because something went wrong
I knew losing you wouldn’t be easy; I always expected to cry
But I should have known; how hard it is just saying goodbye
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The memories are forever, locked inside my mind
the hardest thing of all, is to leave your touch behind
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I knew losing you wouldn’t be easy; I always expected to cry
But I should have known; how hard it is just saying goodbye
I knew losing you wouldn’t be easy; I always expected to cry
I should have known; how hard it is just saying goodbye
How hard it is just saying goodbye; how hard it is just saying
goodbye . . .

These lyrics were written 35 years ago for my song “Saying Goodbye.” I found a lot of papers that my father saved of mine. I originally wrote “Saying Goodbye” after breaking up with my future husband in 1979.