Verse
Everybody wants a final scene
Something pretty for the magazine
One more photograph, one more pose
Everybody loves the way a story closes
You can put the flowers by the door
I don’t need them anymore
Keep the speeches, keep the lights
I was never very good at goodnight
Pre-Chorus
Don’t count down
Don’t turn around
Don’t make a monument of me
Chorus
No goodbye
No goodbye
Leave the last light burning
Let the whole world wonder why
No goodbye
No alibi
If you hear me on the radio
Turn it up and let it fly
I’m not gone
I’m just not here tonight
Verse
We were lipstick on a cigarette
We were something they hadn’t invented yet
Cheap guitars and expensive mistakes
Dancing while the city stayed awake
Now everybody wants the secret told
How you disappear without getting old
Baby, that’s the easiest part
You leave before they finish breaking your heart
Pre-Chorus
Don’t count down
Don’t turn around
Don’t make a monument of me
Chorus
No goodbye
No goodbye
Leave the last light burning
Let the whole world wonder why
No goodbye
No alibi
If you hear me on the radio
Turn it up and let it fly
I’m not gone
I’m just not here tonight
Bridge
Maybe tomorrow
Some kid in a room
Finds an old record
And turns up the tune
Doesn’t know the year
Doesn’t know the names
Just knows three minutes
Can still start a flame
So don’t tell me
Anything ends
The needle comes down
And it all starts again
Chorus
No goodbye
No goodbye
Leave the last light burning
Let the whole world wonder why
No goodbye
No last line
We already had forever
For a little bit of time
No goodbye
No goodbye
Close the door behind you
But leave the music on tonight
Outro
Leave the music on
Leave the music on
Leave the music on tonight
