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I turn to say goodbye, and you're already gone;
Soon you'll only be a memory, and life goes on.
We pretend it's for the best and push ahead,
But it's hard to see the future when I'm looking back instead.

Because I need you, and I don't ever want to see you go.
I only want more time, but it was wasted long ago,
Before I knew that all good things expire;
Life is paper, and time is a fire.

And as I'm forced to move forward on this one-way track,
All behind me is ashes� and I'll never get it back.
Old hopes and dreams left abandoned and destroyed,
What once was love between us all has now become a void.

But your memory remains,
Surviving like an afterimage burned in my brain,
And even as it fades and I forget your face,
I'll still remember everything you did for me
That time cannot erase.

For if you were never there to hold me up, I would have fallen and shattered,
Lost and scattered,
But you held my hand and saved me when I stumbled in the dark.
You never knew your grip was strong enough to leave a mark.

You gave me what I never deserved, and then I failed you;
The kindness that you showed me, I could never return.
These words I write, they might have made a difference when you knew me,
But time has torn us all apart; the mark becomes a burn.

Still, as you leave me for the last time,
I feel a piece of me die,
And I realize that I never had a chance to say goodbye.

I wasn't always there when you needed me most,
And now that I need you, you're nowhere to be found.
This loneliness I feel is only what I should expect,
This is where I would have been if you had never come around.

But still, I want to hold you tight, and never let you go,
I want to make you understand, I want you to know
That I was scared,
That even when you thought I didn't notice, I cared,
That when we gave up on each other, I cried,
That when you let me go I only wanted you at my side,
That I still remember word-for-word the first time that you spoke to me,
And that it changed my life irreversibly.

If we never meet again, this is my final farewell;
There will always be a place for you, somewhere in my heart.
To all with whom I've spent these unforgettable years,
You'll never know how much I'll miss you now that we are apart.