Well, I came back 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 could 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 alone    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 you one last time    Not to change your mind, but just to say I miss you, baby    Good luck, goodbye, Bobby Jean