It wasn't really sad the way they said good-bye   Or maybe it just hurt so bad she couldn't cry   He packed his things, walked out the door and drove away   And she became the girl from yesterday      He took a plane across the sea   To some foreign land   She stayed at home and tried so hard to understand   How someone who had been so close could be so far away   And she became the girl from yesterday      She doesn't know what's right   She doesn't know what's wrong   She only knows the pain that comes from waiting for so long   And she doesn't count the teardrops   That she's cried while he's away   Because she knows deep in her heart   That he'll be back someday      The light's on in the window; she's waiting by the phone   Talking to a memory that's never coming home   She dreams of his returning and the things that he might say   But she'll always be the girl from yesterday   Yeah, she'll always be the girl from yesterday