Goodbye to You (Michelle Branch song)

Infobox Single
Name = Goodbye to You


Artist = Michelle Branch
from Album = The Spirit Room
Released =
Recorded = 2001
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:11 (Album Version)
3:52 (Radio Remix)
Label = Maverick
Writer = Michelle Branch
Last single = "The Game of Love" (2002)
This single = "Goodbye to You"
(2002)
Next single = "Are You Happy Now?"
(2003)

"Goodbye to You" is a song by Michelle Branch, and was the third and the final single from her second album, "The Spirit Room" (2001). It reached #21 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The music video, which uses a different version of the song than the one seen on the album, depicts Branch at a beach in her car, driving away from her troubles, and singing towards the ocean. The video's story is set in reverse and Branch has said that the format is supposed to be similar to the movie Memento. The video was directed by Francis Lawrence. The remixed version of "Goodbye to You" is known as the "Radio Remix".

Branch performed the song at the fictional club The Bronze in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in the sixth season episode "Tabula Rasa". The song was used in a pivotal moment for the series, as the character Tara Maclay left her lover Willow Rosenberg, and the character Giles came to a final decision to leave Buffy Summers so that she would stand on her own (independent of parent figures). When Giles tells Buffy he is leaving she walks out on him, the two parting on bad terms. In reaction she begins her destructive relationship with vampire Spike.

Branch also performed the song at the fictional club P3 in the television series "Charmed".

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