Kelly Clarkson
Good Goes the Bye lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2015
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:22
They say Rome wasn't built in a day
But you and I went and build it anyway
And it only took a second to watch it all fall to dust
I thought you hung up the moon
And you thought I lit up the room
But the lights turned off,and that was the end of us
Slam goes the door
Hush goes the phone
Out goes the flame, and I'm standing here alone
Burn goes the drink
Down go the tears
Drip goes the sink, and I'm missing you like hell
Break goes the heart
Wrong goes the right
Good goes the bye
It's like we pulled a pin out of a grenade
It just didn't go off right away
But man did it go off when it finally did
And everything's suddenly magnified
It's loud and it's quiet at the same time
As the echo of it's all over sets in.
Slam goes the door
Hush goes the phone
Out goes the flame, and I'm standing here alone
Burn goes the drink
Down go the tears
Drip goes the sink, and I'm missing you like hell
Break goes the heart
Wrong goes the right
Good goes the bye
I can't go back, we can't be friends
And we can't be what we were then (good goes the bye)
You can't be mine, and I can't be yours
Well it's not love anymore
Slam goes the door
Hush goes the phone
Out goes the flame, and I'm standing here alone
Burn goes the drink
Down go the tears
Drip goes the sink, and I'm missing you like hell
Break goes the heart
Wrong goes the right...
Good bye
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Key vocabulary
- day
- 24 hoursA1
- end
- finish pointA1
- fall
- go downA1
- goes
- moves; travelsA1
- only
- just one; not moreA1
- watch
- look at; timepieceA1
- went
- past of goA1
- what
- which thingA1
- wasn't
- was not
- anyway
- in any caseA2
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About this song
Kelly Clarkson is an American singer known for pop, country, and R&B. She rose to fame as the first winner of American Idol in 2002 and is recognized for her versatile, powerhouse vocals and a string of major hits such as “Since U Been Gone” and “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You).”