I Love You Goodbye | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Thomas Dolby |
Album: | Astronauts & Heretics |
Genre: | Cajun Techno, New wave |
Length: | 4:32 (7" edit) |
Label: | Giant |
Prev Title: | Close But No Cigar |
Prev Year: | 1992 |
Next Title: | Silk Pyjamas |
Next Year: | 1992 |
"I Love You Goodbye" is the first track on the fourth Thomas Dolby album Astronauts & Heretics. It was the second of three singles to be released from the album and reached number 36 in the UK singles chart in July 1992.[1]
Done in the style of a "Cajun Techno", the song was explained by Dolby on his live album to be a semi-autobiographical narrative of an adventure in New Orleans. The narrator decides to go bowling on a Friday morning, recalling an incident in which he and an acquaintance stole a car (a Datsun) and drove toward the Everglades. They were arrested after crashing the car in a rainstorm, but the county sheriff offered to let them go in exchange for a bribe as long as they got rid of the car in the Gulf of Mexico.