Drive-By Truckers - Goodbye lyrics

These cities blur before me
A swirl of colors leaned against the sky
Gone so far away and I never
Really told you good bye
I know it's kind of lame but sometimes
Things just turn out that way
We were the best of friends and
I'll always remember you that way

We started out with nothing
But wild plans and big ideas and dreams
You were quick to swing the hammer and
Always fast with some ingenious scheme
Sometimes we argued violently but forged it
Out of bedrock into steel
Our foundations were so solid and our
Instincts based on something very real

I feel so damned nostalgic every time
I think about those times
I forget how it became that I


Wouldn't recognize you on the line
I start to feel so guilty but goddamn
It I swear to you I tried
To bridge between the distances before
I left without saying good-bye
I have friends I met last weekend and
Friends I've had since I was eight
Friends I've said goodbye to and
Friends who unexpectedly passed away
And nothing is disposable at least it's
Never been that way for me
Its not like you were an acquaintance that I
Could say never really meant anything to me

No we were really great friends and I always
Thought that it would be that way
Yet I wonder if I'd know you if the guy
That I saw last walked in here today
And I swear until I die
I never would have expected you and I
To grow so far apart and
Leave without ever saying goodbye