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 #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 Forty: Live Limited Edition to be a semi-autobiographical narrative of an adventure in New Orleans. While visiting a bowling alley in the city on a Friday morning, the narrator recalls an incident in which he and an acquaintance stole a car (a Datsun) 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

• 7" (VS 1417)

1. I Love You Goodbye (Edited Version)
2. Eastern Bloc (Edited Version)

• CD 1 (VSCDG 1417)

1. I Love You Goodbye (Edited Version)
2. Eastern Bloc (Edited Version)
3. I Love You Goodbye (Version)
4. Eastern Bloc (Version)

• CD 2 (VSCDT 1417)

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