Lyrics

words and music written by Larry L. Chilton

recorded by Tony Gore and Majesty, "Healing" project

• Verse 1
• If love could be stored in a bottle
• and pulled out to comfort the soul
• to feel the warmth and the laughter
• of a time and a place untold
• or if time could be stopped for a moment
• like a painting of a bird on high
• then it would not be so hard to walk away
• when it's time to say goodbye
• CHORUS:
• When it's time to say goodbye
• to a friend who's gone ahead
• the world can say nothing
• to relieve the hurt and the dread
• but the Lord allows us to remember
• with an answer to the question why
• with just a taste of Heaven's comfort
• when it's time to say goodbye
• Verse 2
• If a picture is worth a thousand words
• then a memory's may never be known
• for the eye of the mind will not fade with age
• nor can it be tattered or torn
• and the time remembered will not stop all the pain
• or the teardrops that fall from the eye
• but a moment recalled might free the heart
• when it's time to say goodbye
• CHORUS:
• When it's time to say goodbye
• to a friend who's gone ahead
• the world can say nothing
• to relieve the hurt and the dread
• but the Lord allows us to remember
• with an answer to the question why
• with just a taste of Heaven's comfort
• when it's time to say goodbye
• TAG:
• As each has a time we'll remember
• each of us will have a time to die
• each have words they wish had been said
• when it's time to say goodbye