GOODBYE JAN / SO SAD YOU’RE LEAVING
©Trev Teasdel Coventry May 1971
With her family she is leaving,
With another lover in her heart
How sad this is for me
How sad this is for me
Goodbye Jan
Goodbye Jan
I hope happiness will always surround you
You are leaving so there’s room
For another lover in my life.
Take my love among your souvenirs,
You may look back and remember me.
Remember me
Goodbye Jan
Goodbye Jan
Won’t you please remember me and mine
Will I ever find someone I like half as much.
A cavalcade of memories takes the stage.
A row of badly acted scenes in which the hero loses out.
Wishing is a game I’m sick of playing.
Hope is a word without a meaning.
Love is a butterfly that’s hard to catch.
Moths are the phonies we all go through.
The sun streaked sky spews upon the sidewalk,
But I wander ‘neath my brolly just the same.
The gun’s of wisdom’s words bark in ceaseless talk,
Say ‘cept within my mind there is no fallin’ rain’
Time is the bringer of change,
The living stage to rearrange.
We all linger in the land of ‘wait and see’
‘Goodbyes, hellos and remember me’s’.
If only I was author of my life
But then again it’s only a wish and a wish is place
We hide when things get bad
Goodbye Jan
Goodbye Jan
I’m the better for having known you
You were inspiration to my soul
How’s it feel to be the star of my song?
We have passed the level crossing of our path,
It’s time to travel on.
And though for me the black clouds
Roar their thunder and my guiding light has gone,
I must pack up my canvass and move along.
And feel I’ve been somewhere to have come from.
Goodbye Jan
Goodbye jan
So sad you’re leaving
So sad you’re leaving.