I've been bound to leave you, we've known that for awhile   I'm sure it's something I can't do if I can't leave you with a smile   I don't know how far I'll have to go till I'm sure those eyes won't cry   And in my mind I've left enough to know that I can't leave you   With a bad goodbye      Goodbye, easier said than done   Goodbye, there's no good when you're the one   Whose goodbye you swore would never come   And in my goodbye you're finding none      I'm still bound to leave you, I surely don't know how   My heart won't let me put you through   What my mind said should happen now   I don't know where we'll go from here, there may be no way to fly   And the cloud I'm in just makes it all too clear that I can't leave you   With a bad goodbye      Goodbye, easier said than done   Goodbye, there's no good when you're the one   Whose goodbye you swore would never come   And in my goodbye you're finding none      How can we be so far between where we are and one more try   And any way I look, I've only seen that I can't leave you   With a bad goodbye