2025 Competition Entry:
Don’t Say Goodbye Tonight by Scott Bryson
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It’s based in Greek tragedy. Aeneas is leaving his lover, Dido, and she’s furious. She has already berated him for betraying her, and she’ll eventually build a huge funeral pyre and set herself on fire, so he has to watch her die as he sails away. But the night before he leaves, all her pride and strength desert her; she sends for him and asks him, “Just stay with me one more night, then tomorrow I’ll let you go forever.”
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Don’t Say Goodbye Tonight
It’s OK if you leave.
It’s all right if you say goodbye.
Yes, I’ll make it if you break my heart.
I can take it if you make me cry.
There’s just one thing that I ask of you.
If you’re gonna up and walk away.
It’s OK if you don’t stay, leave my soul in disarray,
Just don’t do it tonight.
Don’t say goodbye now, just wait a little while
Tomorrow you can go ahead and wreck my life
Won’t you stay here tonight, lie by my side,
Let’s let all our worries go, save them all for the morning.
It’s OK if you leave.
Go ahead and say goodbye.
Just don’t do it tonight.
It’s not that long until the morning sun
Starts its trip across the big old sky.
Can’t you do the same and wait til then
Rest your body and just close your eyes
I won’t hold you when tomorrow comes.
Won’t remind you that we said always.
Do what you need to do, say what you need to say,
Just don’t say it tonight.
Don’t say goodbye now, just wait a little while
Tomorrow you can go ahead and wreck my life
Won’t you stay here tonight, lie by my side,
Let’s let all our worries go, save them all for the morning.
It’s OK if you leave.
Go ahead and say goodbye.
Just don’t do it tonight.
I’m begging you, won’t you turn back around.
All that I’m asking for is now.
We don’t have to talk about tomorrow.
Won’t even mention the future.
Except to say it’s not for you and me,
Not for you and me no more.
Don’t say goodbye now, just wait a little while
Tomorrow you can go ahead and wreck my life
Won’t you stay right here tonight, lie by my side,
Let’s let all our worries go, save them all for the morning.
It’s OK if you leave.
Go ahead and say goodbye.
It’s OK if you don’t stay,
Leave my soul in disarray.
Do what you need to do
Say what you need to say
Just don’t say it tonight.
It’s OK if you leave.
It’s all right if you say goodbye.
Yes, I’ll make it if you break my heart.
I can take it if you make me cry.
There’s just one thing that I ask of you.
If you’re gonna up and walk away.
It’s OK if you don’t stay, leave my soul in disarray,
Just don’t do it tonight.
Don’t say goodbye now, just wait a little while
Tomorrow you can go ahead and wreck my life
Won’t you stay here tonight, lie by my side,
Let’s let all our worries go, save them all for the morning.
It’s OK if you leave.
Go ahead and say goodbye.
Just don’t do it tonight.
It’s not that long until the morning sun
Starts its trip across the big old sky.
Can’t you do the same and wait til then
Rest your body and just close your eyes
I won’t hold you when tomorrow comes.
Won’t remind you that we said always.
Do what you need to do, say what you need to say,
Just don’t say it tonight.
Don’t say goodbye now, just wait a little while
Tomorrow you can go ahead and wreck my life
Won’t you stay here tonight, lie by my side,
Let’s let all our worries go, save them all for the morning.
It’s OK if you leave.
Go ahead and say goodbye.
Just don’t do it tonight.
I’m begging you, won’t you turn back around.
All that I’m asking for is now.
We don’t have to talk about tomorrow.
Won’t even mention the future.
Except to say it’s not for you and me,
Not for you and me no more.
Don’t say goodbye now, just wait a little while
Tomorrow you can go ahead and wreck my life
Won’t you stay right here tonight, lie by my side,
Let’s let all our worries go, save them all for the morning.
It’s OK if you leave.
Go ahead and say goodbye.
It’s OK if you don’t stay,
Leave my soul in disarray.
Do what you need to do
Say what you need to say
Just don’t say it tonight.
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