Don't it seem like the time goes on   And here we are still carrying on   Reaching out for one another   Like a telephone call from an old friend or a brother   And you are there to share this song in the making   Goodbye don't mean I'm gone      I know how alone you are   When it's so hard to be so far   From the ones who mean the most to you   When you would so much rather have them close to you   I hope you know you haven't been forsaken   Goodbye don't mean I'm gone      I'll never be what you think you see in me   If I can help you deal with what you see as real   That makes me glad to have known you      Missing you the way I do   You know I'd like to see more of you   But it's all I can do to be a mother   (My baby's in one hand, I've a pen in the other)   You know my love is always there for the taking   And goodbye don't mean I'm gone