A Long Goodbye

Was it really only yesterday
That you left in such a rush?
Was there really nothing more to say
Like to you it never meant too much?
Well I guess that I knew from the start
That you and I were not to last
But before I got to brace my heart
Our tomorrows were put in the past

In your haste, did you think what you wrecked?
All this waste: bitterness burns in the
Ruins that were respect

In London town, there is no ease
The vagrant memory stings
And angels who make amputees had
Best beware their wings
"Tell us why, we have to know"
The orphaned feelings cry
"Yours was not a short hello
More a long, long, long goodbye."

There's no way to look inside your head,
And find out where the truth is hid
There was sweetness in the things you said,
There was savagery in what you did
Was it really such a waste of time
To finish what we had begun?
But you hung up on the heart's hot line
With a conversation half undone
Dreams that soar, dazzle the Reaper's eye
They're no more, but we never said, we
Never have said goodbye

In London town, there is no ease
The vagrant memory stings
And angels who make amputees had
Best beware their wings
"Tell us why, we have to know"
The orphaned feelings cry
"Yours was not a short hello
More a long, long, long goodbye."

In London town, there is no ease
The vagrant memory stings
And angels who make amputees had
Best beware their wings
"Tell us why, we have to know"
The orphaned feelings cry
"Yours was not a short hello
More a long, long, long goodbye."

We never said, we never have said goodbye