What's a good song to tell someone goodbye?

Question

Yeah, I know the majority of you are going to say... "Just say goodbye". But, I've already done that. Yeah, it would be great if I got some feed back :D

Answer 1

"The Trapeze Swinger" by Iron and Wine. Greatest song ever written. Will make a grown man cry. Check it out, thank me later. Read the lyrics to, they'll make you sob. I can think of no better song. I want it played at my funeral.

Lyrics:

Please
Remember me
Happily
By the rose bush laughing
with bruises on my chin
The time when
We counted every black car
passing your house
beneath the hill
and up until
someone caught us in the kitchen
with maps
of a mountain range
a piggy bank
a vision to remove dimension

but please
remember me
fondly
I heard from someone
You’re still pretty
And then they went on to say
That the pearly gates
Have some elegant graffiti
Like ‘we will meet again’
And ‘**** the man’
And ‘tell my mother not to worry’
And angels with their grays and shades
Are always done in such a hurry

and please
Remember me
At Halloween
Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white
By midnight
We’d forgotten one another
And when the morning came
I was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly
That seasons left the world
And then return
But now you’re lit up by the city

So please
Remember me
Mistakenly
In the window of the tallest tower
Come then passes by
But much too high
To see the empty road at happy hour
Gleam and resonate
Just like the gates
Around the holy kingdom
With words
Like ‘lost and found’
And ‘don’t look down’
And ‘someone save temptation’

And please
Remember me
As in the dream
We had as rug burned babies
Among the falling trees
And fast asleep
Beside the lions and the ladies
That called you what you like
And even mind
Give a gift for your behavior
Of leading chance to see
A trapeze Swinger high as any savior

But please
Remember me
My misery
And how it lost me
All I wanted
The dawns that love the rain
And chasing trains
The colored birds
Above their running in circles
Round the well
And where it spells
On the wall behind St. Peter’s
So bright
On cinder gray
And spray paint
Who the hell can see forever

And please
Remember me
Soundly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees
You turn from me
Said the trapeze act was wonderful
But never meant to last
The clowns that past
Some had just come up with anger
When it filled the circus dogs
The parking lot
Had an element of danger

So please
Remember me
Fondly
All my uphill crawling
My dear
But if I make
The pearly gates
I’ll do my best to make a drawing
Of god and Lucifer
A boy and girl
An angel kissing on a sinner
A monkey and a man
A marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swinger…

Answer 2

Listen To Your Heart- D.H.T.
Wait For You- Elliott Yamin
If You Leave Me Now- Chicago
Goodbye My Lover- James Blunt
I will Remember You- McLachlan
Because You Loved Me- Celine Dion
Ain't No Sunshine- Bill Withers
Goodbye To You - Michelle Branch
Closing Song- Semisonic
Wherever You Will Go- The Calling
My All - Mariah Carey
All Out of Love- Air Supply
It's Say Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday- Boyz ll men
What Goes Around- Justin Timberlake
Sweetest Goodbye- Maroon 5
Goodbye- Jagged Edge

Answer 3

Rolling Stones " Turn To Black"

or the other favorites are


"Die Die You Bit*h Die"
"I Don't Love You No More"
"Leave Me, But Leave The Rent Money"
"Heavean Can Wait, But Go To H*ll Now"
"I Wanna Twist Your Neck All Night Long"
"Stabbing To The Oldies"
"Kill You In The Morning,Then Just Walk Away"
"The Greatest Love Of All, Is Not You"
"Close To You, So It's A Confirmed Kill"
"Hit Me With Your Best Shot, All Make Mine 12 Guage"
Etc
etc
etc

Answer 4

Love Changes by Stevie Nicks


Love Changes



It wasn't that I didn't love you
I just couldn't make you see
That as hard as I tried
To make it all better
It was not better for me
The love that I gave you was...

All around you
There was nothing left for me

But I hate to say it
But I saw it coming
My feelings were changing

I only say what you want to hear
When there is a conflict
I stay clear
When he was loving I was in tears
He knows my fears

I wish I could figure a way around this
She says...like a sad song
I don't understand the way that I feel
I am terrified of being wrong
Well, I am not happy
And I am not crazy
Are you listening, do you hear
Everything happens for a reason
Stay clear

I only say what you want to hear
When there is a conflict
I stay clear
When he was loving I was in tears
He knows my fears

When love changes in the flash of an eye
It leaves people burnin' by the side of the road
You stand there you got nothing to hold
For the first time you are alone
For the first time you are alone

It wasn't that I didn't love you
But I just couldn't make you see
That as hard as I tried to make it all better
It was not better for me
The love that I gave you was all around you
There was nothing left for me
But I hate to say it
But I saw it coming
My feelings were changing

I only say what you want to hear
When there is a conflict
I stay clear
When he was loving I was in tears
He knows my fears

When love changes in the flash of an eye
It leaves people burnin' by the side of the road
You stand there you got nothing to hold
For the first time you are alone
For the first time you are alone

That don't mend the sorrow
Or reinvent the pleasure

Answer 5

If you are breaking up, there's a song, I believe it's Keith Urban, and it goes, "Take your records, take your freedom, take your memories I don't need em, take your space and all your reasons, you'll think of me..."
But if you're really just saying good bye, the end of Third Eye Blind's Semi-Charmed Life has a bunch of Goodbyes...

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

"Goodbye to You" by Michelle Branch

Of all the things I've believed in
I just want to get it over with
Tears form behind my eyes
But I do not cry
Counting the days that pass me by

I've been searching deep down in my soul
Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old
It feels like I'm starting all over again
The last three years were just pretend
And I said,

[Chorus:]
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
The one thing that I tried to hold on to

I still get lost in your eyes
And it seems that I can't live a day without you
Closing my eyes and you chase my thoughts away
To a place where I am blinded by the light
But it's not right

[Chorus]

And it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time
I want what's yours and I want what's mine
I want you
But I'm not giving in this time

[Chorus x2]

And when the stars fall
I will lie awake
You're my shooting star

Answer 7

Goodbye for what occasion?
The best that I can think off is Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt.

Answer 8

Hit the Road Jack

Or

New York New York

Answer 9

Jim Croce - On Less Set of Footsteps

We've been runnin' away from somethin' we both know
We've long run out of things to say and I think I'd better go
So don't be gettin' excited oh-when you hear that slammin' door
Cause there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor in the mornin'

And we've been hidin' from somethin' that should have never gone this far
But after all it's what we've done that makes us what we are
And you've been talkin' in silence well if it's silence you adore
Oh there'll be one less set of footprints on your floor in the mornin'

Oh there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor
One less man to walk in
One less pair of jeans upon your door
One less voice a-talkin'

But tomorrow's a dream away and today has turned to dust
Your silver tongue has turned to clay and your golden rule to rust
If that's the way that you want it well that's the way I want it more
Cause there'll be one less set of footprints on your floor in the mornin'
Oh there'll be one less set of footsteps on you floor in the mornin'

Answer 10

Jo Dee Messina - Bye Bye