The Long Goodbye Isn’t Real

Verse 1

I watched the seasons changing

Like pictures in a frame

Every face that I remembered

Was never quite the same

But somewhere in the distance

Beyond the things we lose

There's a song that keeps on playing

With another kind of truth

Chorus

The long goodbye isn't real

It's only a word we feel

For everything that passes by

And everything we leave behind

The long goodbye isn't real

There's more than what we see and feel

Every ending has a doorway

Every shadow has a light

Verse 2

We spend our lives collecting

The moments we hold near

Trying to stop the river

From carrying away the years

But maybe all the memories

Were never meant to stay

Maybe they were little sparks

To guide us on our way

Chorus

The long goodbye isn't real

It's only a wound that heals

For every road that disappears

Another one will reappear

The long goodbye isn't real

There's a truth we can reveal

We are pieces of each other

Moving through the endless wheel

Bridge

If I'm gone from where you stand

Look for me in what remains

In the laughter and the kindness

In the sunshine after rain

Final Chorus

The long goodbye isn't real

Love is stronger than the years

Every voice and every heartbeat

Still can find its way back here

The long goodbye isn't real

It's a door, not a final seal

What we give into the world

Keeps returning still

Outro

Not goodbye...

Just another way to say

I'll see you again