Goodbye Carolina - Extended Version

I dreamed of the day when I'd hold you in my arms again
Read you all the letters I wrote but never sent
Give you all the pieces of me
To put 'em back together, put them back together again

Life has a way of writing your story for you
And the hero doesn't always get his girl
What if you could change the ending to the novel they've been writing
Leave no resolution?

So, goodbye Carolina
Searched my whole life to find you
I hate to leave you, but I hope you'll know
Where I'm going, I'll be seeing you

So hold my hand as I'm leaving
Hoped my pain would be enough reason
I'll see you on the other side of the Blue Ridge sky
But now I'm going, hate to tell you goodbye

Say it takes a selfish man to leave on out from his old hometown
Without saying why he's going
But you can come take the rest of me
Early in the morning, tell me your goodbyes

Where I'm going, I won't have these reminders of what I lost
What was taken away from me
And I hope you'll understand I was a broken man in my own hometown
Need to find my own peace

So, goodbye Carolina
Searched my whole life to find you
I hate to leave you, but I hope you'll know
Where I'm going, I'll be seeing you

So hold my hand as I'm leaving
Hoped my pain would be enough reason
I'll see you on the other side of the Blue Ridge sky
But now I'm going, hate to tell you goodbye

Goodbye, Carolina
Searched my whole life to find you
I hate to leave you, but I hope you'll know
Where I'm going, I'll be seeing you
I'll be seeing you
I'll be seeing you, hmm, hmm