Terry Jacks: Seasons in the Sun Meaning

Song Released: 1974

Seasons in the Sun Lyrics

Goodbye to you, my trusted friend.
We've known each other since we're nine or ten.
Together we climbed hills or trees.
Learned of love and ABC's,
skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.
Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die,
when all the...

1. anonymous

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   Sep 14th 2016 !⃝

   Someone knowing that the end is near.Saying goodbye to the people that he loved.
2. anonymous

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   Aug 13th 2016 !⃝

   it is a good song it is not a suicide letter it is about his best friend and about who he loved before he died even though he did not die because he is 72 and he lives in Canada
3. anonymous

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   May 18th 2016 !⃝

   I learned a while ago that this song was to represent a boy (young man) who was going off to Vietnam. Not a suicide note or a man in prison. It was to say good-bye to those who meant something to him throughout life because he knew he was going off to die.
4. anonymous

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   Mar 25th 2016 !⃝

   I know the Jacques Brel song. It is a list of his grievances against the people mentioned. It has nothing like the meaning Terry Jacks gives it. Look it up.
5. anonymous

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   Dec 13th 2015 !⃝

   Definitely reminiscing about the good times.
6. anonymous

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   Nov 12th 2015 !⃝

   When I 1st heard this song I thought it was about a man in a death row prison cell but later interpreted it to be about a terminally ill person. ♣
7. anonymous

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   Dec 14th 2014 !⃝

   I think it's a great song. I used to listen to it over and over on a 45 when I was a little kid. Although I did not understand what it meant I still loved it. But I don't think his friend was a dog a dog can't learn his abcs.( remember learn to love and abcs) I may be wrong. But it's just a song.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 5th 2014 !⃝

   This a song about a man on death row reflecting on the highlights and low lights of his life his untracked dreams lost love and how he had disappointed his own father.
9. anonymous

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   Sep 1st 2014 !⃝

   I had to take Our Dog Sheba to be put to Sleep due to ill health, She was 17 years old .. Getting into a taxi afterwards the driver put the radio on and This song had just started to play "Goodbye to You My Trusted Friend"... Meant the world to Me x
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    Aug 7th 2014 !⃝

    I remember this song from years back. On Monday we had our dog put down as she was riddled with mass cell tumors and for some strange reason 'Seasons in the sun' popped into my head. Been humming it ever since and somehow it's soothing this incredible heartbreak I'm going through.
11. anonymous

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    Jun 3rd 2014 !⃝

    I was about to cry to read the first one.
12. anonymous

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    May 31st 2013 !⃝

    It is about Loki approaching Ragnarok and knowing his death will come certain.
    
    Goodbye to you my trusted friend(Odin)
    we've known each other since we were 9 or 10 (which are both holy numbers in Eddic literature.)
    Together we climbed hills and trees
    Learned of love and ABC's
    Skinned our hearts and skinned are knees
    (clear references to Odin's Rune Poem)
    Goodbye Papa, please pray for me
    I was the black sheep of the family
    You tried to teach me right from wrong
    Too much wine and too much song
    Wonder how I got along
    (Odin often had to plea that the other Gods not harm Loki and find ways for Loki to make amends for his actions)
    Goodbye Papa, it’s hard to die
    When all the birds are singing in the sky Now that the spring is in the air
    Little children everywhere
    When you see them I'll be there
    (Loki had several children who were considered Giants and were to battle alongside him in Ragnarok)
    Goodbye Michelle, my little one(Mich is a Germanic pronunciation for my and Hel was Loki's daughter)
    You gave me love and helped me find the sun And every time that I was down
    You would always come around
    And get my feet back on the ground(Hel was also the Goddess of the Underworld and had the power to bring men back from the dead)
    Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die
    When all the birds are singing in the sky Now that the spring is in the air
    With the flowers everywhere
    I wish that we could both be there(The Eternal Spring is what comes after Ragnarok and is the rebirth of Humanity with the surviving Gods)

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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    Dec 19th 2012 !⃝

    When this song came out, my 9year old cousin died, her name was Michelle and she was the black sheep in her family [onlygirl]. I always think of her.
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    Mar 20th 2012 !⃝

    its a suicide letter.
    he talks about how the stars for which they reached were just starfish on the beach. the vanity of reaching out for dreams and goals. its almost as if he is mocking life and death
15. anonymous

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    Oct 28th 2011 !⃝

    A little part of everybody's life and memories..

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