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Goodbye cruel world,
I'm leaving you today.
Goodbye,
Goodbye,
Goodbye.
Goodbye, all you people,
There's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind.
Goodbye.
I'm leaving you today.
Goodbye,
Goodbye,
Goodbye.
Goodbye, all you people,
There's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind.
Goodbye.
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Track duration: 01:00
"Goodbye Cruel World" as written by Roger Waters
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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if we forget about Pink Floyds, Pink and this Wall.
AND as the song says...
Goodbye all you people
There's nothing you can say
To make me change
My mind
Goodbye.
I am dead, forgotten, rotten...
p.s.
you can anytime you feel like send me flowers or hate mail on my email.
the tunnel to escape from all of the morons,from itself,door to the unknown.
and it takes a lot of courage.
if u don't like it u can get out jos'pe
"The Wall" is a lot more than a bunch of random songs. It's a concept album and film that go together, as a complete masterpiece, telling the story of Pink. A boy who's father left when he was a child, to fight in the first world war and died there.
His mother was overprotective ("Mother"), he lived in the shadow of war all his life (WWI, WWII). His wife and he grow distant from each other as time passes. All these things and especially the lack of a father figure in his life drive Pink (Waters) ti build a psychological wall and disconnect himself from the world.
"Goodbye Cruel World" is the song that seals Pink inside his wall. "He" (being his Id) decides there's nothing anyone can say or do to to change this course of action.
Just like he burys himself inside a wall, He is also trying to break out ("Is there anybody out there" - a very clear cry for help and "The Trial" - a process where he simply realizes how his behaviour has only caused pain to the people he loves or has made a very clear influence on his life, mother, wife, teacher).
dylan9236 - it's NOT a suicide note, he does not commit suicide, it's just the middle of the process of building the wall, hiding, and eventually breaking it down.
what if all through the album, all these issues in his life are "just bricks in the wall" which he keeps building higher, until he finally jumps off the top and commits suicide.
The way the song stops immediately after he says the last goodbye helped me to reach this conclusion. Its as if hes standing at the top of the wall singing this and then says the last goodbye and jumps.
Thus this is the last song.
So yes, in that context it is probably a suicide song.
The second to last sentence of his 1961 book Mother Night is "goodbye cruel world."
The last sentence is "until we meet again," though in German.
Does anyone know if Waters was inspired by this quote?
And yeah, The Final Cut was supposed to be on the Wall. Have you listened to the background behind "and if you negotiate the minefields...", you hear remnants of Comfortably Numb.
Without a DOUBT, this is metaphorical suicide. All interpretations in that regard have been right on the money, really... However, here's another idea, for those pointing out that it could be a suicide note that was never fulfilled.
If you dig around, you'll find that the song "The Final Cut" was originally going to be in the "Wall" album. The song describes a man's overwhelming depression up to a point where he "held the blade in trembling hands", ready to commit suicide. Just then, "the phone rang, [he] never had the nerve to make the final cut."
Another interesting thing is that you never find WHERE on the album "The Final Cut" was supposed to be.
So here's an idea; what if it WAS a suicide note? If "The Final Cut" fit right after "Goodbye Cruel World", then this song could be about both suicides, literal and metaphorical.
It's just a thought.