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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   Aug 1st 2011 !⃝

   What a pile of crap...he didn't record because of a friend who died. Hype, I'm afraid....
2. anonymous

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   Jun 26th 2011 !⃝

   This is a goodbye song about a person who is sure of meeting up with his death soon.
   He thanks all the people responsible for lovely memories in his life.
   He first bids goodbye to his friends,the dear friends who he spent his majority of lifetime with. He tells them when to remember him .
   He then sort of apologises and bids farewell to his father.
   And finally,michelle. She could be his loves or wife or daughter. He thanks her for being the light in his life.
   The chorus-'seasons in the sun',symbolises the different phases in his life. And 'the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone' says that all these phases of life will come to an end with the ultimate end,which is death.
3. anonymous

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   Jun 5th 2011 !⃝

   Terry Jacks changed the lyrics to this song after his lifelong friend died of cancer. The song was originally about a dying man saying his good-bys, Terry simply made it apply to his friend.
   
   How do I know.......I dated Michelle (good-bye Michelle my little one), she was two when her dad succumbed to cancer.
4. anonymous

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   May 31st 2011 !⃝

   I think this song is about a man who is saying goodbye to either his dog or his best friend, then his father, then his daughter.
   It's so sad it makes me wanna cry but it's so pretty that I can't help but listen to it.
5. anonymous

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   Apr 18th 2011 !⃝

   The song is based on a poem about a man waiting to die and telling his loved ones how he feels.
6. anonymous

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   Apr 12th 2011 !⃝

   I think that this song is about a guy who is bad and dies and then talks about how his friends tried to help make him good.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
7. anonymous

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   Feb 18th 2011 !⃝

   About a man dying
8. anonymous

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   Jan 4th 2010 !⃝

   My Dad Told Me What I Think Is The True Version... :
   
   3 People, 2 Guys And A Gal Have Been Together Since Ever. They Complete University. 1 of the guys marries the gal. Lets name them a,b and c. a is the first guy, b the second, and c the gal. B marries C. And Some Time Later, The Town's Economy Goes Very Bad. b Leaves The Town For A Job, Leaving a To Care For His Family (His Wife And Kids). a Has An Affair With c. b Comes Back And Kills a. b Is Sentenced To Death By The Law. This Is A Poem/Message He Sent To His Family... So Sad.....
9. sapphire

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   May 15th 2009 !⃝

   Heard the song as a teen-- loved it but never interpreted the lyrics. Had a few close friends commit suicide and use the lyrics to say goodbye.... best friend, dad and girlfriend. The more and more I listen, I still love it (the song) but it sadly reminds me of those precious tormented friends....
10. CaptainVegetable

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    Feb 5th 2009 !⃝

    According to the wikipedia article on Terry Jacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jacks):
    
    "The song was based on an original called 'Le moribond' by Jacques Brel with lyrics and melody modified by Jacks in honour of a friend who had died of leukemia."
11. dkatherine

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    Sep 15th 2008 !⃝

    I was told, this song is about an individual going off to Vietnam and he knows that he is not coming back. Bush didn't want soldiers that were leaving for Iraq to sing this song.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
12. anonymous

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    Mar 20th 2007 !⃝

    I think the song is about a man who is on death row, 'i was the black sheep of the family'
    
    He's saying good bye to family and friends before dying.
13. anonymous

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    Aug 8th 2006 !⃝

    This is a fantastic song, my dad wants it plays at his funeral. I don't know why but I always picture I man in hospital with his family gathered round him, friends and enemys, forgiving everyone for what badness they've done to him, treated badly all his life and now he has the last laugh
14. ksmith67

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    Jun 29th 2006 !⃝

    I heard that the writer of the song was dying when he wrote it and it was a song saying goodbye to everyone he loved. Terry Jacks put it to music for him (possibly after he died?).
15. anonymous

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    Feb 10th 2006 !⃝

    The Kingston Trio recorded this several years before Terry Jacks, with somewhat different lyrics. In that version, the friend in verse one had cheated with the singer's wife (verse 3). He forgives them, but warns he'll be watching them from beyond.
    
    Because of the release date (1974, IIRC), I don't think the Vietnam thing works (too late).

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