A Playlist for Saying Goodbye

There’s a reason they sell pre-printed greeting cards. When it comes to expressing real, heartfelt emotion, some of us aren’t so great with the putting things into words. Better to let the poets at Hallmark express our sentiments with more alacrity than we could ever manage. And the same goes for music: There’s a pop song for every emotion, which means there is a potential playlist for every occasion.

For some reason, I awoke today thinking about how hard it can be to say goodbye—even when you are happy to see the person who is leaving go. Humans are complex creatures, and lots of us find change unerringly difficult, even when we know said change is for the best. So when change comes in the form of bidding farewell to someone who has loomed large in our lives, we may find it hard to put our emotional reactions into words (especially without swearing).

Songs, on the other hand...there is definitely a playlist for that.

“There’s so many times I’ve let you down / So many times I’ve played around.”

“You ain’t got no money / You just ain’t no good.”

“You don’t have to go home / But you can’t stay here.”

“I wanna see you out that door / Baby bye bye bye (bye bye).”

“And up in the nursery an absurd little bird / Is popping out to say ‘cuckoo.’”

“These last few weeks of holding on / The days are dull, the nights are long / Guess it’s better to say / Goodbye to you.”

“It feels like I’m starting all over again / The last three years were just pretend.”

“Just ‘cause you feel so good, do you have / To drive me out of my head?”

“After what you did / I can’t stay on / And I’ll probably feel a whole lot better when you’re gone.”

“Just let me grieve / In private ‘cause each time I see you / I break down and cry.”

“Thank u, next.”

“And you’ll sleep better when you think / You’ve stepped back from the brink.”

“You keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’ / And you keep losing when you oughta not bet / You keep samin’ when you oughta be a’changin’ / Now what’s right is right but you ain’t been right yet.”

“We are never, ever, ever getting back together / Like, ever.”

“Don’t go away mad / Girl, just go away.”

“I need to kill you / To silence all the sweet little things you said / I really want to kill you / Wipe you off the face of my earth.”

“I want a man by my side / Not a boy who runs and hides.”

“Go away / Go away / Go away / Go away / Go away / Go away / Go away / Go away / Don’t come back here anymore / Go away.”

“Why don’t you just get out of my life, yeah? / Why don’t you just get out of my life now?”

“I’m only waiting for the proper time to tell you / That it’s impossible to get along with you.”

“Get out, get out / Get out, get out / get get, get out of here.”

“Fuck you (Fuck you), fuck you very, very much / ‘Cause we hate what you do / And we hate your whole crew / So please don’t stay in touch.”

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