First Hello, Last Goodbye

They say when you gain a lover You begin to lose a friend That the end of the beginning's The beginning of the end They say the moment that you're born Is when you start to die And the first time that we said hello Began our last goodbye We know each summer's coming Means the winter's waiting there And gold would not be precious If we all had gold to spare You only know how low is low The first time that you fly And the first time that we said hello Began our last goodbye If I could live forever It is certain I could never Know another single second so sublime That moment of our meeting When our hands first touched in greeting How I wanted to hold back the hands of time When they begin the overture They start to end the show When you said "I'll never leave you," Then I knew that you would go The sound of all our laughter Is now echoed in a sigh And the first time that we said hello Began our last goodbye If I could live forever It is certain I could never know Another single second so sublime That moment of our meeting When our hands first touched in greeting How I wanted to hold back the hands of time (hands of time) When they begin the overture They start to end the show When you said "I'll never leave you," Then I knew that you would go The sound of all our laughter Is now echoed in a sigh And the first time that we said hello Began our last goodbye And the first time that we said hello Began our last goodbye