As I head for the exit at the Green Man festival I pass the dying embers of last nights fire, the seating logs appear empty, but I can see the ghosts of the weekend, I can hear the stories and the laughs and Richman dancing in the lesbian bar, and I can feel the sorrow setting in as the time to say goodbye sneaks up with the fading smoke.
“What is that feeling when you're
driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks
dispersing? - It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and its good-bye. But we
lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”
There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye - Television Personalities
How to Say Goodbye – Magnetic Fields
We Already Said Goodbye – The Broken Family Band
Everytime We Say Goodbye – April Showers
The Ghost of New
Orleans – Ballboy
Fly Into the Mystery – Jonathan Richman
Those Days, Those Nights – The Notes
Saying Goodbye – Frida Hyvönen
Farewell – Soda Shop
I Was Running – Alpaca Sports
Sorrow – Life Without Buildings