Goodbye My Lover, Pt. 1 [SINGLE] [IMPORT]

James Blunt

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 2006)
• Original Release Date: December 20, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B000CDY2LI
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #355,518 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Goodbye My Lover

2. Close Your Eyes

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The third single lifted off the debut album from James Blunt 'Back to Bedlam. The ballad 'Goodbye My Lover' is a hauntingly tragic love song over a simple piano melody. Blunt sings about the loss of the love of his life. The strong emotional core resonates with the pain and confusion of a failed relationship. Title track is backed by 'Where Is My Mind?' (Live Non-Album Track) and 'You're Beautiful' (Demo). Atlantic. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Words that mirror some of our lives...definitely mine..., March 10, 2006

By	C. Marro "macmar71" (W.Haven, CT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Goodbye My Lover, Pt. 1 (Audio CD)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING!, October 16, 2006

By	stain (ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goodbye My Lover, Pt. 1 (Audio CD)

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

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A desolate void, August 16, 2007

By	Jonathan Appleseed - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Goodbye My Lover, Pt. 1 (Audio CD)

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.