"Goodbye" is the eighth track on .5: The Gray Chapter, as well as the album's fifth and final single.
Background[]
- "Goodbye is actually a song that refers to the day that we lost Paul, and the mood, or the scene, is basically set where the whole band was sitting in my house, and we were all so numb and so destroyed that we were just looking at each other, going, 'Fuck? What now? What just happened?' The closest thing that I can even compare it to is if you were standing next to a bomb, and it goes off, and you're not physically hurt, but there's such a bombastic repercussion that happens with that, that you're just thrown for a loop, and that's what that song is. It's a piece of getting back together and hoping that we can all stand as one, and try to find some hope in one of the darkest days of this band's career."
- —Corey Taylor[1]
Both "Goodbye" and "Skeptic" pay reverent honor to Paul Gray. They are strong references to his passing away, which was due to a morphine overdose.
Lyrics[]
[Verse]
Come on over, come unglued
It's not easy to see all of you
Help yourselves, help is on the way
Well, there's nothing to lose, so now I have something to say
Maybe we can all recognize a moment of silence
Maybe we can finally agree on the same point of view
A long time ago we believed, and we were united
So the last thing on Earth I am ready to do is say "goodbye"
[Chorus]
A long time ago we discovered that nothing could stop us
This hasn't torn us apart, so nothing ever will
How can we know where we are if the sun is behind us?
But this moment will show us the rest of our lives
No one is going to save us this time
No one can know what we're feeling, so don't even try
External Links[]
To be added
Release History[]
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Edition | Label(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| .5: The Gray Chapter ― October 21st, 2014 • Roadrunner Records | |
|---|---|
| Standard | 1 XIX • 2 Sarcastrophe • 3 AOV • 4 The Devil In I • 5 Killpop • 6 Skeptic • 7 Lech • 8 Goodbye • 9 Nomadic • 10 The One That Kills the Least • 11 Custer • 12 Be Prepared for Hell • 13 The Negative One • 14 If Rain Is What You Want |
| Special | 15 Override • 16 The Burden • 17 -Silent- • 18 Huffys Between Dumpsters • 19 Flea Circus |
| Singles | |
|---|---|
| Spit It Out • Wait and Bleed • Left Behind • My Plague • Duality • Vermilion • Before I Forget • The Nameless • All Hope Is Gone • Psychosocial • Dead Memories • Sulfur • Snuff • The Negative One • The Devil In I • Custer • Killpop • Goodbye • All Out Life • Unsainted • Solway Firth • Birth of the Cruel • Nero Forte • The Chapeltown Rag • The Dying Song (Time to Sing) • Yen • Bone Church | |
| Promotional Singles | |
| Surfacing • Heretic Song • Pulse of the Maggots • Vermilion Pt. 2 • The Blister Exists • XIX • Sarcastrophe • AOV • Killpop • Skeptic | |
| Live Singles | |
| The Nameless (9.0: Live) • Surfacing (Day of the Gusano) • Before I Forget (Day of the Gusano) • Psychosocial (Day of the Gusano) | |
References[]
- ↑ @NegativeDevil (October 17th, 2014).
Track-By-Track Descriptions of Corey In Kerrang Magazine. Reddit. Retrieved April 23rd, 2022.
