"Goodbye Again" is a brilliant song...and a hard one to listen too, it's so terribly sad. I think what it is about, Texas Guest, is not the man's former mistress, but his elderly mother, who is living alone now...very alone...

"Now she comes home to her cat
In a three room walk up flat
And plays a game of solitaire"

She remembers being young, strong, and capable...

"Back when children played their games
London bridge and Jesse James
She captured flags she bounced the ball
And every time she beat them all"

Her one real human connection that is left in the world out there is her son...but he's busy with his own life...

"You see he's got a wife back home
And three kids up and grown
But these are things that go unsaid
He might call her from the road
Just in time to say hello
And goodbye again"

Men don't call up their former mistresses whom they have abandoned. They avoid them. They may, however, call their mother occasionally, just to say "hello"...and "goodbye" again.

That song is about the terrible loneliness and helplessness that many people are confronted by in old age. It states an almost universal fear that runs deep in nearly everyone. That's why it's so disturbing.

It's old ladies who sit in their rocking chair. Who play solitaire. And wait for a call from their children.

I'd say it's about the saddest song I have ever heard.


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Quite aside from that, there's another song I find very disturbing...but in a different sense entirely. "My Way". It absolutely gives me the creeps!