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Goodbye My Lover

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A very well written song from James Blunt...who is a great musical find for me. I love his work and Goodbye My Lover is such a deep lyrical work of heatbreak with that melodic piano hauntingly in the background. These words are so vivid and so visionary...and I feel every word sung. I look forward to more music from James Blunt...a breath of fresh air in the world of music.

one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard. filled with love, passion, sadness, unbelieveable emotions......

Have you ever lost anyone? A friend, a relative, a partner or spouse? To time, to distance, to...life?

There is nothing as agonizing in life as to lose someone who is a part of you. Regardless of which of the above broad categories it fits, the feeling is that of some miserly sprite cracking open your ribs, tossing out your lungs as if they were carburetors and cutting a jagged edge through your heart, only to thrust a dirty blade in your sternum and riding it down past your navel, letting all that is within to slosh about at your feet as it will.

If you haven't experienced this sort of loss, this song is a fair enough introduction; I have - twice, and to "life" - and the emotion that Blunt pushes out with his music and emotes with his voice captures it majestically. I can't listen to this song without that dirty blade finding its way back up to my heart.

As gruesome and depressing as this may sound, this song was by far my favorite of 2006.

Although I enjoyed the full CD of James Blunt's "Back To Bedlam", when I saw another new CD for $3.50+ + $5.00 for shipping I figured a deal was at hand!...until I opened it and there were two versions of "You're Beautiful" (one copied from radio and one James sung with an Acoustic guitar, there was one added song, but by then I wanted to send this $9.00 debacle back to where-ever it came from. I saw no warning that the CD contained only two songs alike and one different one.It reminded me of the old Extended plays 45's that we got 3-4 songs on..and they were rippoffs that did NOT last long either!
Rick "Strings" Lauzon~~~~

Don't expect a full CD of songs by this new artist, a two-hit wonder. Goodbye, My Lover Part one is all you get, albeit a long version.

James Blunt is one of the very few perfomers this past year who has definitely delivered with so many great songs from You're Beautiful, to the soulful High. His thrid single, Goodbye My Lover, from is debut album Back To Bedlam, really doesn't hit the mark as his earlier singles did. Although the song isn'ta bad song, I just actually didn't find this one as appealing as the other songs. The melody seems here a bit more somber, than soulful and uplifting. I still love his songs, but I just hope the next single he comes out with delivers a bit better than right now. This isn't as beautiful as before.

Song: C 1/2+