This song was written some time ago when Paul was in a relationship that didn’t seem quite right. Use it for any situation you wish you hadn’t landed yourself in, could be a job you’re stuck with and don’t really like, or a place you should have left when there was still time to leave. Do not use it at all if you don’t want to.
This song is soon to be recorded again, with real drums this time. If we can arrange it…
Here’s the lyrics, chords will be added soon but maybe you can figure them out by yourself. It’s written in the key of F# minor, starting with one of Paul’s favourite chords:
That would be F#m7/4, it’s also called F#m11, with open B and high E string.
OK then, here’s the lyrics:
Lyrics
The best thing that you’ve never had
The worst thing I missed out on
How can it be that’s how it seems
When all the while your misery got in my dreams
So to your sorrow endlessly I’d bow my head
And cry
I should have said goodbye
Shouldn’t have stayed that long
I shouldn’t have come here in the first place
I should have done right when I did wrong
And while you’re knocking on my door
you fade away and I can’t see you anymore
You don’t know what your life is for
You don’t know what you want from me
But that you want so desperately
Is plain to see
I should have said goodbye
Shouldn’t have stayed that long
I shouldn’t have come here anyway
I should have done right when I did wrong
I should have said goodbye – goodbye – goodbye
And I know it’s strange
How it seems that I didn’t even try
To say goodbye – goodbye
And there’s no going back
To where we started our from
Anymore
I should have said goodbye
Shouldn’t have stayed that long
I shouldn’t have come here anyway
I should have done right when I did wrong
I should have said goodbye
Shouldn’t have stayed that long
I shouldn’t have come here in the first place
I should have done right when I did wrong