Lyrics to
Goodbye Blue Sky

This version of Goodbye Blue Sky was released by Pink Floyd in 1979.

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Look, Mummy. There’s an airplane up in the sky.

Oooooooo ooo ooo ooooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the falling bombs
Did you ever wonder
Why we had to run for shelter
When the promise of a brave new world
Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky
Oooooooo ooo ooooo oooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the falling bombs
The flames are all long gone
But the pain lingers on
Goodbye blue sky
Goodbye blue sky
Goodbye
Goodbye

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Pink Floyd has released many songs over the years besides Goodbye Blue Sky. Pink Floyd released songs from 1967 to 1994 spanning across albums like The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful Of Secrets, More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Relics, Obscured By Clouds, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, Works, The Final Cut, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, and The Division Bell. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Pink Floyd.

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About Lyrics and Goodbye Blue Sky by Pink Floyd

The lyrics to Goodbye Blue Sky are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Pink Floyd used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Goodbye Blue Sky have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Pink Floyd and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Goodbye Blue Sky by Pink Floyd. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Goodbye Blue Sky" means the words set to the music of Goodbye Blue Sky, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Pink Floyd. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Goodbye Blue Sky and the lyrics to Goodbye Blue Sky are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Pink Floyd who came here looking just for the lyrics to Goodbye Blue Sky, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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