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Goodbye Isn’t Really Good At All

This version of Goodbye Isn’T Really Good At All was released by Don Williams in 1974.

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It seems you’ve gone without leaving
All the doors are closed at night
Though I’ve tried to think of leaving
Goodbye isn’t really good at all.

If there were really something good to it
And I knew it wouldn’t get me down
I could leave in the morning
But goodbye isn’t really good at all.

Here we are alone together
That’s the truth and that’s the lie
Though I’ve tried I can’t get over
Goodbye isn’t really good at all.

If goodbye were like it sometimes seems
Then it could be like it’s been in some of my dreams
I could leave in the morning
But goodbye isn’t really good at all…

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The lyrics to Goodbye Isn’T Really Good At All are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Don Williams used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Goodbye Isn’T Really Good At All have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Don Williams and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Goodbye Isn’T Really Good At All by Don Williams. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Goodbye Isn’T Really Good At All" means the words set to the music of Goodbye Isn’T Really Good At All, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Don Williams. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Goodbye Isn’T Really Good At All and the lyrics to Goodbye Isn’T Really Good At All are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Don Williams who came here looking just for the lyrics to Goodbye Isn’T Really Good At All, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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