A Million Times a Day by John Speckine

Words and Music ©2012, 2025 by John Speckine

Lyrics below.

Originally titled: "When You Said Goodbye", this is my first piano composition. The subject concerns when the love of my life left me because I was too stupid to realize what I had.

It's an emotional song, one of loss and regret. It's one of the "Top 5 Most Difficult for Me to Play" of all my original music.

These five songs are each like a kick in the gut and I have a very hard time getting through the entire song, emotionally, whenever I play them live - probably because the stories are 100% true.

LYRICS:

I made you all those promises
I never meant to break
And when I didn't keep them
You took your love away

Now I've had to live my life
Without you by my side
And all the hopes and dreams I had just died
When you said goodbye
When you said goodbye

I close my eyes and think of you
Time does not heal all wounds
And though I know it's pointless
I still hope to see you soon

Almost thirty years have passed
Since I looked in your eyes
But I miss you just like it was yesterday
When you said goodbye
When you said goodbye

I wish I could go back in time
And change the things I did
I wish that I had never made you cry

I'd give everything I have
To be with you again
And live the life I know could have been mine

A million things a day remind me
That we're still apart
A million times a day, I feel
A knife go through my heart

I try to keep these feelings hidden
From the world outside
But still when I'm alone, sometimes I cry
About when you said goodbye
When you said goodbye

A million things a day remind me
That we're still apart
A million times a day, I feel
A knife go through my heart

I try to keep these feelings hidden
From the world outside
But still when I'm alone, sometimes I cry
About when you said goodbye
When you said goodbye

When you said goodbye
When you said goodbye
When you said goodbye

Words and Music ©2012 by John Speckine