A hand above the water
An angel reaching for the sky
Is it raining in heaven
Do you want us to cry?

And everywhere the broken-hearted
On every lonely avenue
No-one could reach them
No-one but you

One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flying
too close to the sun
And life goes on
Without you

Another tricky situation
I get the drowin' in the blues
And I find myself thinkin'
Well, what would you do?

Yes, it was such an operation
Forever paying every due
Hell, you made a sensation
You found a way through

One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flyin'
too close to the sun
We'll remember
Forever

And now the party must be over
I guess we'll never understand
The sense of your leaving
Was in the way it was planned?

And so we grace another table
And raise our glasses one more time
There's a face at the window
And I ain't never
never sayin'
goodbye

One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flyin'
too close to the sun
Cryin' for nothing
Cryin' for no-one
No-one but you