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So much I thought I'd have to say
Though I try to speak, my meaning strays.
We can't avoid the facts that brought us here.
I have come to say goodbye.
The lies I try to tell with my own eyes;
An act of pride, a willful compromise.
Please understand how torn I am
When I walk away from here.
I lament the moments we won't share.
If I am far too sentimental, I apologize.
Please understand this is who I am
And who I'll still be when I've walked away from here.
You know I'm not unkind
When I say in the future,
The past is just the past.
No going back,
No change of heart
But this is now,
Time will not differ.
My thoughts(?) betray, so easily confess(?)
How long I'll wait here after you have gone.
Nothing ends(?) but I don't believe that now
Please don't walk away from here.
I went alone and I remember days.
Nothing will change a single fact(?) of who you were to me
Oh, come what may, forever to the end
I find it so hard to let you go.
And hush now, let it go now
There's no need for sad goodbyes.
Hush now, let it go now
I know it's time to go.
Time to let this fall from my hands
Though I try to speak, my meaning strays.
We can't avoid the facts that brought us here.
I have come to say goodbye.
The lies I try to tell with my own eyes;
An act of pride, a willful compromise.
Please understand how torn I am
When I walk away from here.
I lament the moments we won't share.
If I am far too sentimental, I apologize.
Please understand this is who I am
And who I'll still be when I've walked away from here.
You know I'm not unkind
When I say in the future,
The past is just the past.
No going back,
No change of heart
But this is now,
Time will not differ.
My thoughts(?) betray, so easily confess(?)
How long I'll wait here after you have gone.
Nothing ends(?) but I don't believe that now
Please don't walk away from here.
I went alone and I remember days.
Nothing will change a single fact(?) of who you were to me
Oh, come what may, forever to the end
I find it so hard to let you go.
And hush now, let it go now
There's no need for sad goodbyes.
Hush now, let it go now
I know it's time to go.
Time to let this fall from my hands
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He doesn't want to let go of his hope - he wants to hang on forever, to be with this person, to spend his life with them, but there is too much between them, whether it be that they just don't love him in return, or that the circumstances surrounding their relationship make it difficult for one or both parties, and their relationship is really no relationship as such.
It's the pained goodbye of a man to his best friend, and the person he loved. Moving on to the future - the past is just the past, and there's no going back, and as difficult as he may find it to let go... he has no choice.
Heartbreakingly beautiful.
To me this song seems to be sung by someone that is already dead in an attempt to console his grieving friends. When he says, "Hush now, let it go now, there's no need for sad goodbyes" he sounds less like someone who is in mourning, but rather someone who is being mourned.
All of the words about moving on can be interpreted from two different points of view. One, obviously, is the surviving loved ones must learn to move on with their lives, but the other seems to be the deceased. He is accepting that he can't be with everyone he knew, and that he must try to believe that moving on into the next life is the best thing he can do. He's letting the world he left behind 'fall from his hands.'
Everyone can interpret the song however he or she wishes, but this idea, to me, is much more powerful because it is a means of comforting real people that have faced a heartbreaking loss. It also feels like it fits better with the overall theme of the album, from it being otherworldly (faith).
"And hush now, Let it go now, There's no need for sad goodbyes, Hush now, Let it go now"
Being sung to the person who is grieving in "Forsaken"