Gerard O'Riley

Looking back on days gone by. We were something.

Whenever she goes away I miss her. Still hard after all these years. Hold onto love. It may never come again.

Don't say goodbye is a song about man who fears his wife will leave him when hard times have surfaced. He reminds her that he saved her from similar conditions and hopes to change her mind.

I didn't have much of anything deep or meaningful in mind when I wrote this. It's a love song, particularly about heartbreak, and I just wanted to try a new take on it and try to make a catchy love song that was a little deeper than the initial words on the page.

We still live in a world that has different cultural segments that judge women harshly for meeting their basic human needs. This is a song about a woman (not necessarily from a woman's perspective, but could be) who got lonely and reached out for something to touch that loneliness. The idea behind this song is that women should not feel ashamed of being lonely and seeking human contact. It's something we all need. I just hope the song is good enough to do the idea justice.