THE FIRST HELLO THE LAST GOODBYE

They say when you gain a lover
You begin to lose a friend
That the end of the beginning’s
The beginning of the end

They say the moment that you’re born
Is when you start to die
And the first time that we said hello
Began our last goodbye

We know each summer’s coming
Means the winter’s waiting there
And gold would not be precious
If we all had gold to spare

You only know how low is low
The first time that you fly
And the first time that we said hello
Began our last goodbye

If I could live forever
It is certain I would never know
Another single second so sublime

At the moment of our meeting
When our hands first touched in greeting
How I wanted to hold back the hands of time

When they begin the overture
They start to end the show
When you said you’d never leave me
Then I knew that you would go

The sound of all our laughter
Is now echoed in a sigh
And the first time that we said hello
Began our last goodbye