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I know that this song was done by Randy, guitar wise, but did he write the lyrics?

After dissecting the song and reading the lyrics, does anyone else think it sounds like Randy wrote them? Because when it says "Goodbye to romance, yeah. Goodbye to friends." Goodbye to friends? Well, Randy WAS leaving his friends behind, so maybe this song was his "going away" song?

It just sounds like he wrote the lyrics, but then had Ozzy sing it. That's my opinion..........

What do y'all think?

If I'm not mistaken, I think Bob Daisley wrote the song. I could be wrong, though. Anyone?

I also never get the feeling that Randy was "saying goodbye" to anyone...if anything, like most of us, he probably thought that he had many, many years left ahead of him. Sad how circumstances took that away from him.

CanuckRhoadsFan wrote:If I'm not mistaken, I think Bob Daisley wrote the song. I could be wrong, though. Anyone?

I also never get the feeling that Randy was "saying goodbye" to anyone...if anything, like most of us, he probably thought that he had many, many years left ahead of him. Sad how circumstances took that away from him.

Bob Daisley wrote the lyrics for Goodbye to Romance, it was written for Ozzy and is about his experience of leaving Black Sabbath.

From Bob Daisley's Inverview w/ DJ Johnson:

"Ozzy was going through what he termed a "divorce," and he was depressed about it, and that's why I wrote, at the end of "Goodbye To Romance" - and there's another example - "Look ahead - forget about the past - I think the sun will shine," you know? I wrote that sitting in the demo studio in Birmingham near where Ozzy used to live as sort of a positive light shining through the darkness of his divorce from Black Sabbath. "Goodbye To Romance" was his title, but that's just a line out of an Everly Brothers song."

http://www.cosmik.com/aa-august02/daisley.html

Sky wrote:Bob Daisley wrote the lyrics for Goodbye to Romance, it was written for Ozzy and is about his experience of leaving Black Sabbath.

Exactly what I was going to say... Bob has a gift for words and after he heard Randy playing it and Ozzy singing a vocal melody he wrote the words... I believe that it was the first song the wrote.

I absolutely adore that song. The guitar solo Randy does always makes me feel like great inside. It reminds me of a bird taking flight into the sunshine

Ah hmm. Okay

That is one of several hours of music that I want played at my funeral:) SATO also. Lots of Floyd, some Beatles (Obladi Oblada anyone;) The Rain Song by Zep and it shall be a party:) I don't want anyone crying, though I think that Zepplin song and Goodbye To Romance will bring the tears. I don't have the entire list handy but there is more Randy in there too!

Great song. It has a Beatles kind of melody. I have heard it was one of the first songs they wrote.

The song was on Blizzard so I don't think that it was meant for him leaving them as it was at the very beginning of their time.

I'm sure this is known by most but Randy was playing that basic tune in some of his spotlight performances with QR. Or at least the basic tune. I'm sure that the final product took some time getting right but it is indeed a great song. My favorite RR solo personally. Try as I might I just can't make my fingers work that way to make it sound right...lol.

Pretty much all of the riffs on the Blizzard album were what Randy would play, in part, at different times in his QR days and probably some he had up his sleeve that nobody had really heard yet. I don't think it should surprise anyone.But thats what a musician does when they first get together in a new band with new people, "I've got a few riffs, wanna hear'em?" Even a drummer will pull out stuff he's got for an intro, outro, groove, feel etc......it's how you, and other people, take that riff, groove, style, feel etc and turn it into a whole song...........then the real magic might begin, or in Blizzard's case, did begin.

Right. In '80 bootlegs you can hear Lee playing the Over the mountain intro in his solo. Bob said in an interview Randy wrote some lyrics but they were not that good. I could imagine how someone so good at guitar not being good at say drums or lyric writing. Also Ozzy mentioned the Beatles were his biggest influence and how the melody reminded him of the Beatles. I could imagine Paul McCartney doing a version. The first word is... Yesterday.