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Example

Longest Goodbye

Release date: 7th July 2014

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About This Track

"Longest Goodbye" is a track by Example, from the album Live Life Living, released 7th July 2014. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Example

Example

Lyrics

Longest Goodbye

[Verse 1 x2]

Neither here nor there

Wasn't truth or dare

He didn't look too hard

Because it's rude to stare

[Verse 2]

This is the longest goodbye of his life

It's not what he wants to be

Tryna be the good guy all his life

Walking on the thinnest ice

Hiding in the dimmest lights

Waiting in the coldest nights

For something that was never gonna be

For something that was never gonna be

[Chorus]

He loved you with the wrong side of his heart

This is how the castle's meant to fall apart

Broken down again and now the car won't start

The wrong side of his heart

The wrong side of his heart

The wrong side of his heart

The wrong side of his heart

The wrong side of his heart

[Bridge x2]

Not today, not again

Not today, I heard him say

She's the one that got away

She's the one that got away

[Chorus]

[Verse 1 x2]

[Chorus]

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Track details

From Live Life Living

2014
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Live Life Living
Live Life Living
Example
Release year
2014
  1. —New Friends
  2. —Take Me as I Am
  3. —Full Eclipse
  4. —Live Life Living
  5. —Innocent Minds
  6. —At Night
  7. —Seen You
  8. —Next Year
  9. —One Last Breath
  10. —Only Human
  11. —All the Wrong Places - Radio Edit
  12. —Kids again - radio edit
  13. —All the Wrong Places (Quintino Remix)
  14. —One More Day (Stay with Me)
  15. —10 Million People
  16. —All the Wrong Places - Starkillers Remix
  17. —All the Wrong Places
  18. —Can't Face the World Alone
  19. —Longest Goodbye

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