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i know they say if you love somebody
you should set them free (so they say)
but it sure is hard to do
yeah, it sure is hard to do
and i know they say if they don't come back again
then it's meant to be (so they say)
but those words ain't pulling me through
cos i'm still in love with you
i spend each day here waiting for a miracle
but it's just you and me going through the mill
(climbin' up a hill)

[chorus]

this is the long goodbye
somebody tell me why
two lovers in love can't make it
just what kind of love keeps breaking a heart?
no matter how hard i try
you're gonna make me cry
come on, baby, it's over, let's face it
all that's happening here is a long goodbye

sometimes i ask my heart did we really
give our love a chance (just one more chance)
and i know without a doubt
i turned it inside out
and if we walked away
would make more sense (only self defense)
but it tears me up inside
just to think we still could try
how long must we keep riding on a carousel
going round and round and never getting anywhere?
(on a wing and prayer)

[chorus]

this is the long goodbye
somebody tell me why
two lovers in love can't make it
just what kind of love keeps breaking a heart?
no matter how hard i try
you're gonna make me cry
come on, baby, it's over, let's face it
all that's happening here is the long goodbye

[chorus x2]

the long goodbye
the long goodbye
this is the long goodbye

someone please tell me why

are you ever coming back again
are you ever coming back again
are you ever coming back again
guess i'm never coming back again

$eklinde olan ronan keatingin slow parçalarından biri.

(breath - 2 Ağustos 2002 09:16)

(bkz: the long goodbye)

(endless bliss - 11 Kasım 2010 10:57)

new model army'nin strange brotherhood albümünden bir şarkı. sözleri:

holed up in your little room, we talk for hour on empty hour,
pacing up and down between the walls that we have built ourselves.
no more with the long goodbye, i can't stand another tear;
i won't wait for the bell to toll - straight on for the days ahead,
straight on for the days ahead . . .
you act as drowning, letting go the fingers one by one.
come on, there's life beyond the tomb that we have built ourselves;
no more with the long goodbye . . .
we don't even dare to look each other in the eyes,
or say whatever's on our minds . . .
these crushing moments show the kind of people we've become,
seal betrayal with a kiss - and let it all be over, finished, done . . .
it feels so good to kill the thing that stood between the truth and i
make it fast and make it clean and let the blood run down
no more with the long goodbye

(little wing - 31 Temmuz 2004 22:25)