To your credit to the thirty faces you created
To your headache to the shape of the 1980's
I'm glad that we don't hear you any more
I'm tired of playing in your fashion war

To the lights to the trend setting in your head
Sunday nights tear from the youth cults already dead
I'm glad that we don't hear you and more
I'm tired of fighting in your fashion war

Goodbye seventies

To your credit to the thirty faces you created
To your subscription for the million copies of 1980
I'm glad that we don't hear you any more
I'm tired of losing in your fashion war

Goodbye seventies




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Goodbye '70's Lyrics as written by Alison Moyet

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    Moyet later described how her song "Goodbye 70's" had been inspired by her disillusionment with how the late-1970s punk scene had turned out, saying, "'Goodbye 70's' is about punk and not caring how you were dressed, and then I discovered that so many of my friends that I'd thought it all really meant something to just saw it as another trend... That's what 'Goodbye 70's' was all about, about how sour the whole thing became."

    DanVitaleRockson September 12, 2023   Link
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    Awesome song off an awesome album. This is one of those iconic albums where there's literally not one bad song.

    The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory. Song was written in 1982 (maybe 1981). A lot of people were sick of the vapid self-absorption of the 1970s and hoping the '80s brought about a change of consciousness. Too bad they didn't...

    JimmyCarlBlackon January 17, 2013   Link

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