When you meet someone that you want to keep
for the rest of your life

And when you build dreams that capture all your
loved ones

And when you wait for a success that you would
celebrate with those who appreciate,

Then suddenly have to say goodbye. Goodbye
to the days that are no longer anything but a memory

And goodbye to the eyes that you were
searching for in your dreams

And goodbye to the dreams that died before they
lived. Life becomes different.

Tears wipe tears, and hellos become
goodbyes at the land of departure

Once I become a young woman,
I shall meet a young man and love
and live and enjoy my life.

Once they become old, I shall help
and love and help and love them.

But, when I am a young woman,
the people around me have just gone.

They've just gone before it is time to do
what I promised, And before I saw my dream
come true. And hence I know, life becomes different.

Tears wipe tears, and hellos become
goodbyes at the land of departure

When you walk and it's raining,
the touch of water will cure your heart
and freshen your thoughts with hope and happiness.

When you walk and the sun is shining,
the beam of sun will warm your heart with
feelings
and with passion for a life that will come
tomorrow.

But, when I walk
and see the leaves of palm trees
at doors around me and hear the sound of
bombs and guns,
and fear the time will come when I am gone
without saying goodbye
to those whom I love,
life becomes different.

Tears wipe tears, and hellos become
goodbyes at the land of departure.

When you promise to come to lunch
or when you phone a friend to meet
or when you take a step forward
and hear the apatchi hovering overhead,
you wonder whether you will come to
lunch or meet or take a further step.
Life is forward or life is backward –
forward or backward ... you never know.
But when you hear the sound
of death hovering over, all at once
life becomes different.

At Palestine tears wipe tears, and hellos
become goodbyes.
life means death and death means life
it is a land of departure.