The saddest thing / Melanie Safka And the saddest thing under the sun above Is to say good-bye To the ones you love But the things that I have known Become my life, my every own But before you know you say good-bye Oh-good time, good-bye It's time to cry But I will not weep nor make a scene Just say, 'Thank you, life, for having been' And the hardest thing under the sun above Is to say good-bye ..