I could barely breathe when you told me goodbye   Thought my knees would go as you walked down the drive   It was I could do to hold back the tears   I whispered "I love you" guess you didn't hear   As I watched you drive away   I thought I'd die      And that was the easy part   As bad as it was   Your goodbye didn't torture me   Like your being gone does      Facing my life alone   Is where it really gets hard   Watching you leave   Bore a hole deep in me   And that was the easy part      'She'll be back"   That's what I told myself   But the more I lied   The less it seemed to help   If you know how a man whose about to drown   Feels the 3rd time he goes down   Then you know how I was feeling   The day you left      And that was the easy part   As bad as it was   Your goodbye didn't torture me   Like your being gone does      Facing my life alone   Is where it really gets hard   Watching you leave   Bore a hole deep in me   That was the easy part      Facing my life alone   Is where it really gets hard   Watching you leave   Bore a hole deep in me   That was the easy part