Goodbye for Now
Liz Callaway * Track #23 On The Story Goes On (On & Off Broadway)
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Album The Story Goes On (On & Off Broadway)
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- #2I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
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- #3Since You Stayed Here
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- #4Knowing When to Leave / Promises, Promises
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- #5Where Is Love?
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- #6Meadowlark
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- #7Sleepy Man
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- #8Our Time
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- #9I Got the Sun in the Morning
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- #10Stop, Time
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- #11One Boy
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- #12Marry Me a Little
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- #13The Story Goes On (Baby)
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- #14A Place Called Home
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- #15Where Do I Go From Here? (Fiorello!)
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- #16New Words
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- #17Everybody Says Don’t
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- #18I Remember
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- #19What Am I Doing Here? (Promises, Promises)
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- #20Nothing More to Say
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- #21One of the Beautiful People (No Way to Treat a Lady)
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- #22Run, Run, Run Cinderella (Foxy)
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- #23Goodbye for Now
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Goodbye for Now by Liz Callaway
Performed by
Liz CallawayProduced by
Bruce KimmelWrited by
Stephen SondheimAbout
This song was written as instrumental music for Warren Beatty’s 1981 historical epic Reds, but Sondheim later set lyrics to the music with the hope that the song would be an ancillary hit for the film.
Goodbye for Now Lyrics
[Verse]
Yes, I know:
Goodbye for now
How long, a year, a day?
Yes, I love you
Yes, you're with me
Here, now, next to me
And worlds away
See, I free you—
And I’ll see you when I see you
Fine, okay
Goodbye for now, again
Goodbye until whenever, then
We're free
That's what we said we’d be
At leave to come and go
You as well as I
Somehow, each hello
Makes it worth goodbye...
For now
Goodbye for Now Q&A
Who wrote Goodbye for Now's ?
Goodbye for Now was written by Stephen Sondheim.
Who produced Goodbye for Now's ?
Goodbye for Now was produced by Bruce Kimmel.
What did Liz Callaway say about "Goodbye for Now"?
Calling the song “an instrumental with words,” Sondheim writes in Look, I Made a Hat:
Although the lyric is set to a motif I wrote for the background music of Reds … it was never heard on screen. … The lyric was written at the request of [Warren Beatty], who hoped to release it as a single, sung by...