Saying Goodbye – Muppet Style

While I know intellectually I am leaving I don’t really feel I’ve fully wrapped my brain around the idea of it. I keep talking about it. I’m planning for it. But I’m in total task mode just trying to get everything done. There are a gamillion details. When do I have time to emote? No idea.

So, it was recommended to me that I start to remind myself that this is the last time I will go to the beach, see this person, do this whatever here in CA. It feels a little artificial that way, but I have been doing it sort of. I’ve gone on a tour of my favorite places and restaurants with some of my favorite people. Last week it was Versailles with Lisa, El Gaucho Grill on Friday with Debbie, Huntington Gardens on Saturday with Erika and Bucca de Beppo on Sunday with Janine, Lisa, Tina and Colleen. But it just feels like a normal week. I’m always that busy.

Maybe the leaving part doesn’t hit until I’m actually gone. Maybe it will hit me as I drive away. Maybe it won’t hit until I’m in Ohio, alone, bored, friendless and broke wondering if I made the right decision. Or maybe it will be when I return and realize I don’t live here anymore. No idea. So instead I turn to the muppets to help.

I came across this song they sang in Muppets Take Manhattan when the gang has to separate. It is cheesy, corny and perfect.

“Saying Goodbye”
written by Ralph Burns and Jeff Moss

(At a train station)
Piggy: Saying goodbye, going away
Seems like goodbye’s such a hard thing to say
Kermit: Touching our hands, wondering why
Both: It’s time for saying goodbye.

(On a country road with Scooter on bicycle)
Scooter: Saying goodbye, why is it sad?
Makes us remember the good times we’ve had
Much more to say, foolish to try
It’s time for saying goodbye.

(In the back of a truck with Camilla)
Gonzo:
Don’t want to leave, but we both know
Sometimes its better to go

(On a Greyhound bus)
Rowlf:
Somehow I know, we’ll meet again
Not sure quite where and I don’t know just when

(On the roadside, hitchhiking)
Floyd: You’re in my heart, so until then
Electric Mayhem: It’s time for saying goodbye.

(In a freight train car)
Fozzie:
Somehow I know, we’ll meet again
Not sure quite where and I don’t know just when
You’re in my heart so until then
Wanna smile
Wanna cry
Saying goodbye

All except Kermit & Fozzie:
La la la la, la la la la
It’s time for saying goodbye
La la la la, la la la la
La la la la-la la la.

Filed under: Psychobabbling , emoting, goodbye, grief, Muppets