So Goodbye Lyrics - Singles - Redgum

I loved your home at Springfield 

And your chauffer-drive Jag 

But the afternoons at the yaucht squadron 

Rally are a drag 

Your country home at Aldgate 

Your horses and your friends 

The alcoholic sunsets, the pleasure never ends 

I've just begun to notice the cold steel in your eyes 

So I say to you goodbye 

As she goes on asking why 

I've spoken to your father he's a self made millionaire 

Do you know where his factories are? 

Do you know who lives there? 

In squashy little red-brick houses far away from here. 

They're ugly and they're all the same 

The neighbours live so near 

The way my famliy's living there you'd not believe your eyes 

So I say to you goodbye 

As she goes on asking why 

Your brother's learning how to drive the jag in your back yard 

Your father sits and tells me about how he's worked so hard 

Your mother's introducting me with patronising grace 

To all her bridge friends in the salon, little cakes and lace 

My mothers working nightshift now, she's working till she dies 

So I say to you goodbye, as she goes on asking why 

Your fathers firm owns factories not far from where we stay 

The chimneys spewing thick black smoke 

Across the night and day 

The people live and work down there underneath that cloud of smog 

The kids' backyards are small and bare, too small to keep a dog 

Dont tell me that they like it there, thats certainly a lie 

So I say to you goodbye 

As she goes on asking why