Jimmy Eat World – Goodbye Sky Harbor Lyrics

Goodbye Sky Harbor is based off of the novel “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, by John Irving, with some of the lyrics being direct quotes from the novel.

Sky Harbor International Airport serves Phoenix, Arizona, the home state of Jimmy Eat World.

The classic fade at the end of this song has led many to consider it one of the most important emo tracks of all time.

As written in Rolling Stone’s “40 Greatest Emo Albums of All-Time” rankings:

…the hypnotic 16-minute finale ‘Goodbye Sky Harbor’ eventually made Clarity a cult classic.

If that’s not recognition enough, on “Untitled,” the closer from Knuckle Puck’s debut album, Copacetic, an eerily-similar type of fade is deployed as a nod to Jimmy Eat World, who is cited on their website as a special influence for the album.