Goodbye My Girl Lyrics

Goodbye My Girl lyrics

I was thinking of home as the bus pulled away 



Take me to the Cape and you knowing what I had to do 



And the sun it beat down all along the highway 



As I thought about the day when I told you I would stay 



I was trying just to find the words to tell you 



That I had to go and leave it all behind 



I had to go back to the land where I had come from 



I'd lost what I came to find had to leave it all behind 



And the lights of old Boston still shine on you now 



Where you'll be what they want you to be 



Yeah the lights of old Boston still shine on you now 



And you know in your heart in your heart you must be free 



Goodbye my girl don't you know I hate to leave you 



Goodbye my girl and I hate to see you cry 



Goodbye my girl don't you know I hate to leave you 



But it's better this way to say goodbye 



You were smiling when you met me at the station 



And I wondered if you'd cry when I told you I would die 



If I had to stay one more week in this nation 



It's the land of the free but not where I want to be 



And you asked me if I loved you more than Ireland 



And to tell the truth the answer it was no 



Cause I just knew that I could never make this my land 



In the home of the brave I would only find a grave 



As I got aboard the plane my heart was breaking 



As I left you there in pain with no words that could explain 



Why I had to make to make the journey I was making 



Had to leave you alone but then how could you have known 



All the things I was feeling deep inside me 



As I sat there I wondered how 



I could love a country more than I could love you 



As the plane took off and flew I just knew that it was true