The song "Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt is about a difficult break-up. The singer expresses his regret over letting his lover down, and expresses the depth of his love for them even though they have gone their separate ways. He also reflects on their time spent together and reminds them that he still loves them, despite their separation. The sense of loss is further emphasized by the haunting chorus and outro with the phrase "I'm so hollow".
This song is about a girl Blunt dated, but he wrote it years after the relationship ended. When he appeared on the UK show Songbook, Blunt explained: "I guess it's a realization that you'll never be with someone, but the frustration that they are still alive and out there in the world. It can be an incredibly painful idea - I sat with the song for quite a long time. But for me, it's probably my most personal song. Whereas 'You're Beautiful' is about a moment, one second in time of passing that person, the song 'Goodbye My Lover' is about a lifetime's worth of emotion, the fact that that relationship is over, and that life continues. And yeah, it's the most personal song on Back To Bedlam."
James Blunt lived with actress Carrie Fisher while he recorded Back To Bedlam; he met her through a family friend. In the Radio Times February 10, 2006, James Blunt described how he recorded this song in Carrie Fisher's bathroom: "For 'Goodbye My Lover,' we needed a piano. There wasn't one in the home studio we recorded in but Carrie had one in her bathroom. So I said, Let's get the home studio and spend the night in there. It was a good acoustic - that's why people sing in the shower. And it sounds great to me - that's what's on the album."
If you think the person Blunt is singing about in this song is dead, you're not the only one; Blunt says he gets asked that a lot. He says the girl he's singing about is very much alive, but the grieving in the song gives the impression of death.
This was the fourth single from Back to Bedlam, and in the UK it caused a bit of Blunt-fatigue. In May 2006, the UK radio station Essex FM banned this and all of Blunt's other songs because "We appreciate his success but we need a break."
A 2006 UK survey by The Bereavement Register revealed this to be the year's most requested funeral song.
Carrie Fisher was the reason for naming the album Back to Bedlam. "Fisher was my American mother, and a real inspiration," Blunt explained to The London Times. "My first album was called Back to Bedlam because I lived in a madhouse with her. She put a cardboard cutout of herself as Leia outside my room, with her date of birth and date of death on her forehead. I'm trying to remember what the date was, because it was around now - and I remember thinking it was too soon."
This was used on The Office in the season 3 episode "A Benihana Christmas." Michael plays a sample of it on repeat after his girlfriend dumps him. When Dwight asks him why he doesn't just buy the whole song, he replies, "I don't have to buy it. I just wanna taste it."
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