Lyrics
[verse]
The house is quiet now that all the boxes have been packed,
Every empty corner holds a memory looking back,
I never thought that we would reach this place so soon,
Watching all our yesterdays dissolve into the gloom.
[verse]
The guitar plays it sparse and slow beneath these final lines,
A gentle kind of sorrow that I've read between the signs,
You were my closest friend, the one who knew me best,
And letting go of that is the hardest kind of test.
[chorus]
Goodbye, my dearest friend, you've been the one for me,
Goodbye, my dearest friend, though it's not meant to be,
I have loved you and I've watched you as you grew,
And a part of me will always stay with you.
[verse]
I'll carry all our seasons like a photograph inside,
Every laugh and every quiet where our two hearts would collide,
This isn't full of anger, this is only made of grace,
A tender kind of farewell to a warm and gentle place.
[chorus]
Goodbye, my dearest friend, you've been the one for me,
Goodbye, my dearest friend, though it's not meant to be,
I have loved you and I've watched you as you grew,
And a part of me will always stay with you.
[bridge]
(instrumental - sparse melancholic guitar, soft ambient swell)
[chorus]
Goodbye, my dearest friend, you've been the one for me,
Goodbye, my dearest friend, though it's not meant to be,
I have loved you and I've watched you as you grew,
And a part of me will always stay with you.
