Don't play pop music, no
You know I hate pop music
Just sing amazing godless grace

I don't wear bright colours, oh
You know I hate bright colours
I never liked you for the way you dressed
Anyway

Goodbye lovers and friends
So sad to leave you
When they lie and say
"This is not the end"
You can laugh as if
We're still together
You can laugh about it all
Anyway

I hope you didn't bring flowers
Hope you didn't write a poem
Hope you remember every fight

I know I could be noxious
Or occasionally cruel
But only to the ones
I loved

So goodbye lovers and friends
So sad to leave you
When they lie and say
"This is not the end"
You can laugh as if
We're still together
You can laugh about it all

Don't get inventory
Don't fake your memory
Don't give me virtues that I never had
Don't get sychophantal
We never were sentimental
I know that I took more than I ever gave

I don't need to be forgiven
But a moment from the living
Yeah that's the only thing I ask

So don't play pop music, no
You know I hate pop music
Just sing amazing godless grace

So goodbye lovers and friends
It's so sad to leave you
When they lie and say
"This is not the end"
You can laugh as if
We're still together
But this really is the end


Lyrics submitted by flozn, edited by Franztastic

Goodbye Lovers & Friends Lyrics as written by Bryan Charles Hollon Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley

Lyrics © WARP MUSIC LIMITED, Universal Music Publishing Group

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    I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned how it could be about how his opinion of his career. As in, how he had to change how his music originally was to get popular/because his manager told him to. The first two paragraphs talk about change, then the chorus is about how his fame disallows him to meet his family/friends.

    Hgaudguadon May 16, 2015   Link

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