Goodbye, Goodbye Lyrics
Goodbye, I don't wanna
Feel the need to hear your voice
Goodbye, I don't wanna
Feel the need to see your face
[Pre-Chorus]
I can't live with
All these things I would say
I can't live with
All these things that I'd say
[Chorus 1]
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
[Chorus 2]
You never really knew me, never, ever
Never, ever saw me, saw me like they did
You never really loved me, never really
Never really loved me, loved me like they did
With some time, I might wanna
See the way that you've changed
With some time, I might wanna
See how you fared what you can't replace
[Pre-Chorus]
I can't stand it
All these things I've let go
I can't stand it
All these things I've let go
[Chorus 1]
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
[Chorus 2]
You never really knew me, never, ever
Never, ever saw me, saw me like they did
You never really loved me, never really
Never really loved me, loved me like they did
You could have told me goodbye
You could have told me goodbye
[Hook]
You let me try knowing there was
Nothing I could do to change you
You could have warned me
Knowing there was nothing I could do to change you
[Chorus 2]
You never really knew me, never, ever
Never, ever saw me, saw me like they did
You never really loved me, never really
Never really loved me, loved me like they did
[Chorus 1]
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
[Chorus 2]
You never really knew me, never, ever
Never, ever saw me, saw me like they did
You never really loved me, never really
Never really loved me, loved me like they did
About
“Goodbye, Goodbye” is the first track on the Heartthrob album. Sara described the meaning of the song in the Heartthrob: Track by Track series:
I wanted to write a breakup song but I wanted it to be the kind of breakup song where it’s intimate. You’re not angry at the person, but you are…it’s sort of as a post-breakup song where you’re not trying to get back together, you’re not angry.
It’s more whiny if anything. It’s sort of like, “oh, here I am again, just, oh, god, woe is me.” You know, it’s more like that.
You know in a rom-com, where they always do that thing at the end of the movie where you think that they’re really never gonna be together, and then they meet each other at one of those muffin cafe-type places, and then they just re-hash it out? This song is sort of a rom-com. It’s sort of like, you know, we sit down, and we talk it out, and you never really knew me, never really got to know me.
Q&A
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