When you know it is the last time
What can you say
There are no words that can articulate
Such a feeling

So we say
Good bye, good bye
We say good bye
Good bye, good bye
Good bye, good bye

By the time that I return there will be
Nothing left but your paintings
All those colors as you left them
In the balmy breeze

To know the moment
You had gone, gone, gone, gone
To feel you there
When I was far from home
How the eyes of a father
Can be seen in the face of his daughter

By the time that I return there will be
Nothing left but possessions
All that's scattered as you left it dried out in the heat of the sun

Like an embrace
Without the weight of arms
To feel you there
After you'd gone
How the laugh of a mother
Can be heard in the voice of a brother

Tell me what was it like
Tell me what was it like
To go from here
To say farewell
To leave this place
For the great unknown

The ways we hold on to the past our shadows cast
How the dancing of children
Is lost as age takes over
What a shame
How we lose such things
In the moving on and letting go

The ocean is the the color that you saw
The ocean is the color that we'll always be
With or without your hands to paint it
As I sang into the night sky
I knew that you were stopping by
To say goodbye
Good bye, good bye
Good bye, good bye
Good bye, good bye

Good bye, good bye
Good bye, good bye