I Love You Goodbye


"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.
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 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.

Track listings

  1. I Love You Goodbye
  2. Eastern Bloc
  1. I Love You Goodbye
  2. Eastern Bloc
  3. I Love You Goodbye
  4. Eastern Bloc
  1. I Love You Goodbye
  2. Windpower
  3. Europa and the Pirate Twins
  4. Eastern Bloc