“What's so good about goodbye?
All it does is make you cry.
Well, if leaving causes grieving,
And depart can break you heart,

Tell me (what's so good about it)
I could have done without it.
What's so good about goodbye?”

— Smokey Robinson

What's So Good About Goodbye (1961)
Song lyrics, With The Miracles

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American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer 1940

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