Well I came by your house the other day
Your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say
Me and you we've known each other ever since we were sixteen
I wished I would have known
I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now you hung with me when all the others
 turned away, turned up their nose
We liked the same music,
 we liked the same bands,
 we liked the same clothes
We told each other that we were the wildest
The wildest things we'd ever seen
Now I wished you would have told me
I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now we went walking in the rain talking about
 the pain that from the world we hid
Now there ain't nobody, nowhere nohow gonna
 ever understand me the way you did

Maybe you'll be out there on that road
 somewhere, in some bus or train traveling
 along, in some motel room there'll be a radio
 playing and you'll hear me sing this song
Well, if you do, you'll know I'm thinking of
 you and all the miles in between and
I'm just calling one last time
Not to change your mind, but just to say I
 miss you baby, good luck, goodbye Bobby Jean