Goodbye West Coast
"Goodbye West Coast" | ||||||||||||||
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Album track by Matt Sharp | ||||||||||||||
Album | Matt Sharp (album) | |||||||||||||
Released | 2004 | |||||||||||||
Recorded | 2003 | |||||||||||||
Length | 5:22 3:27 (edit) |
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Writer(s) | Matt Sharp | |||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Matt Sharp | |||||||||||||
Status | Officially released | |||||||||||||
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"Goodbye West Coast" is a song written by Matt Sharp.
Overview
A short edit of the song first appeared on the solo EP Puckett's Versus the Country Boy in 2003. The full-length song appeared on Sharp's eponymous album the following year.
During the concert in which Sharp publicly reunited with Rivers Cuomo in 2004, the two performed the Weezer track "Undone (The Sweater Song)". Before the song, Sharp recalled an anecdote in which a attendee of one of his concerts remarked that "Goodbye West Coast" sounded "exactly like the Sweater Song".
Personnel
- Matt Sharp - vocals, bass
- Greg Brown - guitar melodies, piano, vocals
- Mick Flowers - percussion
- Kurt Perkins - piano
Audio
Lyrics

Hazy day, making my way
Out somewhere on the motor highway
Heading down, east coast-bound
Another day's been lost, then found
I wrote down a few things to say
Got a few things left to say to my best friend's grave
And I'm hardly awake
I pull into a stop off the motor highway
Silly day, I read in the trades
They're makin' films about friends I'd made
No sound, they just turned around
The next thing you know they were lost then found
Well, alright
Goodbye, west coast
I'm going back, I'm going home
Goodbye, west coast
I'm going home
I broke down in a halfway town
News of the day is some poor girl drowned
The papers say she went to the bay
The very next day they just found her that way
Sunny day, traffic waits
Child waves to the motorcade, fade
All the windows down
A pretty sound's been lost, then found
Goodbye, west coast
I'm going back, I'm going home
Goodbye, west coast
I'm going home
Highway, so long
Take me back to where I belong
Highway, so long
Where do I belong?
Mama, I say, look at what mess you made
Mama, I say, what a mess you made
Look at what you made
What a mess you made
What a mess you made
Alright
Goodbye, west coast
I'm going back and I'm going home
Goodbye, west coast
I'm going home
I'm making my way to my best friend's grave
Making my way to my best friend's grave
Child waves to the motorcade
Making my way to my best friend's grave
I'm making my way
Goodbye, west coast
I'm going home