| I Love You Goodbye | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Thomas Dolby |
| Album: | Astronauts & Heretics |
| Genre: | Cajun Techno, New wave |
| Length: | 4:32 (7" edit) |
| Label: | Giant |
| Prev Title: | Close But No Cigar |
| Prev Year: | 1992 |
| Next Title: | Silk Pyjamas |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
"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 number 36 in the UK singles chart in July 1992.[1]
Done in the style of a "Cajun Techno",[2] the song was explained by Dolby on his live album to be a semi-autobiographical narrative based on his experience of a road trip near New Orleans.[3] In the song, the narrator decides to go bowling on a Friday morning, he and a friend drive toward the Everglades[4] in a stolen Datsun ; they are arrested after crashing the car in a rainstorm, but the county sheriff offers to let them go in exchange for a bribe as long as they get rid of the car in the Gulf of Mexico.