Dear Friend

GenreYear of compositionLevelMusic score
soprano solo
(C4-A♭5)
2025IntermediateDownload

Note from the composer

This is a goodbye letter that I started writing in 2015 as I moved to another town, and which remained unfinished until march 2025.

Text

Dear friend I’m leaving today
I couldn’t come to you smiling
Knowing we won’t meet again.

Dear friend I miss you today
Miss all the joy we were sharing
Every memory breathing inside me
When I’m playing, cherishing you right here in my heart

Dear friend I’m leaving today,
Let us just shake our hands
hoping all the pain will fade away

Dear friend, I hope that someday
As we grow old we’ll be laughing on these memories
May I not think of you out there
May it be a sweet dream
Never waking on a sullen day, miles away
Far from here wondering when will I come back to you…

Dear friend I’m not saying farewell
Next to you wants my heart to stay
Dear friend I’m looking for a way
to live my dreams and fly away

Dear friend oh promise me someday
You’ll come to visit me out there
Close to the wind, and near the sea
There you’ll find me

Dear friend I’m leaving today
I couldn’t come to you smiling

Yona c. rasolonjatovo

Instrumentation

  • soprano
  • piano