Good Goodbye
Linkin Park & Stormzy & Pusha T * Track #2 On One More Light
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Album One More Light
Good Goodbye by Linkin Park (Ft. Pusha T & Stormzy)
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Produced by
Brad Delson & Mike ShinodaWrited by
Brad Delson & Stormzy & Pusha T & Mike Shinoda & Jesse ShatkinAbout
Linkin Park’s collaboration with Pusha T and Stormzy is partially inspired by Mike Shinoda’s love of basketball. The song uses fouling out of a game as metaphor for the end of a relationship. Mike Shinoda also said it is an outlier track that does not fit in with the rest of the album. He described...
Good Goodbye Lyrics
[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
So say goodbye and hit the road
Pack it up and disappear
You better have some place to go
'Cause you can't come back around here
Good goodbye
(Don't you come back no more)
[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]
Live from the rhythm, it's
Something wild, venomous
Enemies trying to read me
You're all looking highly illiterate
Blindly forgetting if I'm in the mix
You won't find an equivalent
I've been here killing it
Longer than you've been alive, you idiot
And it makes you so mad
Somebody else could be stepping in front of you
And it makes you so mad that you're not the only one
There's more than one of you
And you can't understand the fact
That it's over and done, hope you had fun
You've got a lot to discuss on the bus
Headed back where you're from
[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
So say goodbye and hit the road
Pack it up and disappear
You better have some place to go
'Cause you can't come back around here
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
[Verse 2: Pusha T]
(Wooh!)
Goodbye, good riddance
A period is after every sentence
Did my time with my cellmate
Maxed out so now we finished
Every day was like a hail date
Every night was like a hailstorm
Took her back to my tinted windows
Showin' out, she in rare form
Wings up, now I'm airborne
King Push, they got a chair for him
Make way for the new queen
The old lineup, where they cheer for 'em
Consequence when you ain't there for him
Were you there for him?
Did you care for him?
You were dead wrong
[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
(Don't you come back no more)
So say goodbye and hit the road
Pack it up and disappear
You better have some place to go
'Cause you can't come back around here
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
(Don't you come back no more)
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
(Don't you come back no more)
[Verse 3: Stormzy]
Yo
Let me say goodbye to my demons
Let me say goodbye to my past life
Let me say goodbye to the darkness
Tell 'em that I'd rather be here in the starlight
Tell 'em that I'd rather be here where they love me
Tell 'em that I'm yours this is our life
And I still keep raising the bar like
Never seen a young black brother in the chart twice
Goodbye to the stereotypes
You can't tell my kings we can't
Mandem we're linking tings in parks
Now I got a tune with Linkin Park
Like goodbye to my old hoe’s
Goodbye to the cold roads
I can't die for my postcode
Young little Mike from the Gold Coast
And now I'm inside with my bro bro's
Gang
[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
So say goodbye and hit the road
Pack it up and disappear
You better have some place to go
'Cause you can't come back around here
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
(Don't you come back no more)
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
(Don't you come back no more)
Good Goodbye Q&A
Who wrote Good Goodbye's ?
Good Goodbye was written by Brad Delson & Stormzy & Pusha T & Mike Shinoda & Jesse Shatkin.
Who produced Good Goodbye's ?
Good Goodbye was produced by Brad Delson & Mike Shinoda.
When did Linkin Park release Good Goodbye?
Linkin Park released Good Goodbye on Thu Apr 13 2017.
What inspired the song?
I’m a basketball fan. When I was writing this song, I wanted to capture that moment at the game when someone fouls out, and the cheerleaders sing and kick out the ejected player.
What did the artists want to achieve with "Good Goodbye"?
We wanted this song to apply to two things at the same time: someone getting kicked out of a game, and someone getting out of a bad relationship.
Musically, how did this song come together?
“Good Goodbye” was a funny one because it was the only track on the record where a lot of the music came really early. It was more like a hip-hop session. My most basic setup is machine, a Nord, some other Native Instruments stuff. Maybe there’s a couple keyboards in the room. I was banging on the m...
What was the inspiration behind the lyrics?
I’m a big basketball fan. At a Laker game, if a player from the opposing team fouls out, all the Lakers girls start singing “Hit the Road Jack,” and they switch their butts and their hands. They just kick this guy. Like, imagine it’s LeBron, and they’re kicking him out of the thing, right? And as La...
Did Linkin Park give Pusha T and/or Stormzy any instructions?
Our attitude for any time we approach somebody about a collabo has always been, “Let the music speak for itself.” Like, we’ll tell you what the vision for the thing is, but at a certain point, you have to like the song, and you have to understand what it’s about without me telling you, right? What w...