Thursday, February 16, 2012

Song of the week

I'm going through a rather sad time in my life, as you will have noted if you read this blog.  There are some lovely songs about grief in my collection.  I first heard this one live at Womadelaide festival in March 2011 and it brought me to tears as I thought of my Dad and that I would soon have to say a final goodbye to him.  It really captures the mood, perhaps she wrote it about a parent too....


Goodbye - Leah Flanagan


Goodbye is so hard to say
When you know you won't be saying it again
And each night this heavy heart breaks
For goodbye is a lifetime away

Well I, I have no lies
And for that I am proud
I didn't do it alone
'Cause I learnt from the best
You showed me how to love & then I made up the rest

Now I, I'm doing my own
To keep these demons out of my mind
And its hard to keep my head up high
With each sun going down I feel we're losing time

'Cause goodbye is so hard to say
When you know you won't be saying it again
And each night this heavy heart breaks
That goodbye is a lifetime away…

If I've been a sinner I'll confess till I bleed
I'll take a world's worth of punishment to have you alive not in dreams
Take these bones from my back, take all that I own
For life without you is a wine I don't know

'Cause when, when its the last sky
Changing with the pull of the tide
I remember the colours, and I remember them well
The Alyawarre people the ran ocean swell

'Cause goodbye is so hard to say
When you know you won't be saying it again
And each night this heavy heart breaks
For goodbye is a lifetime away

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