Don't Say Goodbye - Judy Collins

Love don’t say you can’t forgive me

How can I bear to live if you say goodbye?

God has mercy, can’t you spare some?

I am begging you to stay, if it’s just a lie

I’ll take the crumbs you leave at my door

I just can’t bear not to see you anymore

Those years of love can’t be gone

Take me with you, don’t leave me here alone

Don’t say goodbye love

I couldn’t bear to hear it

Don’t say goodbye love

It’s what I’ve always feared

Nightmares come, I know, I’ve had one

Why can’t I be awake?

Say it’s just a dream

This is all too real for dreaming

Like something in a play, truer then it seems

How did your face of love turn to hate?

Only a moment passed, now it is too late

Blind to the truth I have loved

Lost for now, I am helpless without you

Don’t say goodbye love

I couldn’t bear to hear it

Don’t say goodbye love

It’s what I’ve always feared

High above, the moon is riding

Clouds covering her face so she can not see

Tears are falling from my own eyes

Hope dying in my heart, struggles to be free

I want to hide in the past

Where I thought that I’d found love at last

Love that would suffer my sins

Love that would let me begin to live

Don’t say goodbye love

I couldn’t bear to hear it

Don’t say goodbye love

It’s what I’ve always feared

Don’t say goodbye

Don’t say goodbye