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The Long Goodbye is a song I wrote about Ron and Nancy Reagan's love affair and how it ended so sadly do to the ravishes of Alzheimers. The irony of someone that had such a wonderous life to have it end ten or more years before he actually left the woman he loved was just sad...
© 2004 Kenneth Johnson

We've shared a wondrous life
It's hard to understand
But I have to say Goodbye
Now while I still can

And though we've done it all
There's still so much to do
Our Spring will turn to Fall
As I Winter without you

Remember all the smiles
But if you need to cry
Love's never out of style
Despite The Long Goodbye

And those who still believe
In love so deep and pure
Won't feel we've been deceived
By the things we must endure

I won't ask you to stay
But I'm praying that you'll try
I'll love you anyway
Despite The Long Goodbye

I know it's hard to see
A mind no longer there
But my heart will always be
As long as I breathe air

And in eternity
My love will fill the sky
As I watch and wait for thee
But now The Long Goodbye

I'll watch and wait for thee
'til you can be with me,
But now The Long Goodbye