Club Q Update #44 - Goodbye Is Just A Word.

We got some very sad news that some friends of ours lost their Mother yesterday.

I wrote this song soon after we lost Dad in April of 2015. Mum and Dad had booked a holiday for June of that year to see my sister in Malta, and we had decided to change Dad’s ticket, and I would take Mum in his place. She needed a bloody holiday after all she’d just been through. We all did. It was hard taking Dad’s seat on the plane, but i’m glad we went through with it, and i’m glad Holly, Mum and I spent that holiday together. There were so many memories - we went to Malta a few times as kids on family holidays.

These are the words to the song I wrote on that trip. This is another home demo that I had no intention of releasing, but now felt like the right time.

It must be unimaginably hard to lose someone in a world where you can’t wrap your arms around to comfort the loved ones around you.

Goodbye Is Just A Word

There are memories where you used to be, you know they come in waves

I can’t help but feel without you here, reality is a cruel reveal

Man, you know I’m no island, but maybe I’m somewhere at sea

Where the light and sound of the busy town forgot about me

Here I am. And at the heart of it all

I’ll play my part ‘till the curtain call

I can’t help thinking when I reach the end

I don’t know how, I don’t know when

But someday soon, we all return

Goodbye is just a word

Down the cobbled streets where we used to walk, our ghosts walk there still

Down the city steps, our strides in time

A soldier’s march is now a broken line

To Piadina Cafe, off of Merchant Street, we were here when we were kids

It’s still the same, though the world has changed

Now I sit where you did.

Here we are. And at the heart of it all

We play our parts ‘till the curtain call

I can’t help thinking when we reach the end

I don’t know how, I don’t know when

But someday soon, we will return

Goodbye is just a word

With a broken heart and tears I see

You were always looking out for me

Through all I am, and all I’ve learned, you’ll live on

Goodbye is just a word.