1

The farewell was awfully kind, awfully kind

Kind enough I didn’t even feel sad

The farewell was sweet I find

And when we said goodbye I only felt glad

And even now all I feel

Is joy at our goodbye I can’t conceal

You know, our love was so good

Better than the greatest love affair

But the best part of all was how we said, “Take care!”

2

The farewell was affable, beautiful

Parting was exactly like beginning

We thought it natural

We thought many, many years were coming

But oh my love, how we were wrong!

The last goodbye can never last too long

Just the essentials now

Nothing else remains then just to whisper, “ciao”

But I’m happy to wait until you show me how

How come when a love affair

is coming to an ending

Only then we share those secret words

and stop pretending

It’s loyalty

Sweet cruelty

Naïvety

3

The farewell had subtlety, we didn’t see

We didn’t see that it was time to move on

Another cup of tea

Thinking every sip could be the last one

But when I look in your eyes

I see at least a million more goodbyes

 “We’ll not meet again,”

I finally said.

I’ll treasure your reply:

“It was a good goodbye

It was a good goodbye

It was a good goodbye…”