She Used To Say “I Love You” (But Now She Says “Goodbye”)

As the sun lights up the morning
I rise to greet yet another day.
Some more hard travelling before me,
but I guess I've got to pay.

She used to say “I love you”
But now she just says “Goodbye”
Leaving me so lonesome,
So lonesome I could cry

I met her in a bar in Tucson,
and I asked her for a dance.
I lost my heart completely,
I never stood a chance.
For ten long years we were together,
and she was my one true love:
the mother of my children,
the one I'm dreaming of.

She used to say “I love you”
But now she just says “Goodbye”
Leaving me so lonesome,
So lonesome I could cry

But living it ain't easy,
jobs seem to come and go.
When my drinking became a problem,
the cracks they started to show.
She said “It's me or the bottle:
you can't have us both.”
But the devil drink had bewitched me,
and she showed me the door.

She used to say “I love you”
But now she just says “Goodbye”
Leaving me so lonesome,
So lonesome I could cry

Now I don't say I blame her,
I'm wasn't the man I once was,
'cause the drink was like a fire
that burned up all our love.
But for two years now I've been sober,
no can or bottle have I touched.
And I'm going back to see her,
to be with the one I love.

She used to say “I love you”
But now she just says “Goodbye”
Leaving me so lonesome,
So lonesome I could cry.

And when I do finally see her,
I will fall down to me knees,
ask her to forgive me,
beg “Please, baby please!”
For she's the mother of my children,
she's my little turtle-dove.
She's the one I want to be with,
the only woman I've ever loved.

She used to say “I love you”
But now she just says “Goodbye”
Leaving me so lonesome,
So lonesome I could cry...