Chris Cornell Songs - Wave Goodbye Lyrics

Chris Cornell - Wave Goodbye

Chris Cornell - Wave Goodbye Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Euphoria Morning
Released: 1999

Wave Goodbye Lyrics

Words get tangled on your tongue
And you stumble on your feet
When you miss somebody
And everywhere you think you see them
Walking down the street
When you miss somebody
When you miss somebody
You tell yourself a hundred thousand times
Nobody ever lives forever
So you give it one more try
To Wave Goodbye, wave goodbye

Every hurtful thing you ever said
Is ringing in your ear
When you miss somebody
And everything of beauty that you see
Only brings a tear
When you miss somebody
When you miss somebody
You tell yourself everything will be alright
Try to stand up strong and brave
When all you want to do is lay down and die

How long I've waited for an answer or a sign
Lonely and weary from
The troubled task of trying
To wave goodbye

So now you start to recognize
That every single path you see
Leads to a tear in your eye
So wave goodbye, wave goodbye

Writer/s: Cornell, Chris
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Wave Goodbye

Cornell wrote this for his good friend Jeff Buckley, who had recently died. Cornell has said that it was one of the most straightforward songs that he has ever written. (thanks, sinead - Galway, Ireland)

Jeff Buckley was an acclaimed singer/songwriter who drowned in 1997 while swimming in the Mississippi River. His father, Tim, was a very influential folk singer who died of a heroin overdose in 1977. Tim was 28 when he died, Jeff was 30.

Euphoria Morning was Cornell's first solo album, which he followed in 2007 with Carry On and in 2009 with Scream. He was formerly lead singer of Soundgarden, and went on to form Audioslave.