Best "leaving" songs.

"How Can I Miss You If You Don't Go Away"

For real-- Sinatra, "One For My Baby"

 

Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On) — The Everly Brothers (recently covered by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss)

 

Black -- Pearl Jam

 

Wow... Two pages and no Boss?


Thunder Road-- Bruce

"It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.."

 

Fast Car -- Tracy Chapman

 

Cleveland Rocks, Art Modell?

 

The lump-in-the-throat winner for me is "Keep Me In Your Heart" by Warren Zevon, written and recorded while he was dying and could barely stand up.

Also "Left and Leaving" by The Weakerthans.

 

"If you leave me now" -- Chicago
"I don't want to leave, but I gotta go right now"
"Don't Know what you got, until it's gone" Cinderella

 

Send in the Clowns. Sinatra version is best.

 

Leaving Again -- Steve Poltz

The song was in the movie Jack Frost -- the one where Michael Keaton comes back to his kid as a snowman.

 

Say Hello Wave Goodbye -- David Gray
Trying to Stop Your Leaving -- Dierks Bentley

 

Two more...

"Leaving New York," REM
"Leaving Her for The Last Time," Paul Kelly