Goodbye to a World

**"Goodbye to a World"**
	Worlds album cover art
Source	Porter Robinson
Era	Season 1, pre-reboot
First appearance	"Good Night - Undertale" (May 30, 2016)
Media
Audio preview	File:Goodbye to a World.wav
Track information
Official video	YouTube (Original); YouTube (Chrome Sparks Remix)
YouTube Music	YouTube (Original); YouTube (Chrome Sparks Remix)
Key	A Major
BPM	96

"Goodbye to a World" is a song by Porter Robinson. It is also a minor meme on the SiIvaGunner channel.

Overview

"Goodbye to a World" is a track composed by Porter Robinson, and appears as the twelfth and final song on the album Worlds, released on August 12, 2014. In 2015, the track received an official remix by Chrome Sparks for the album Worlds Remixed, as well the original track being featured on the album Shelter: the Complete Edition, an album made for another track by Porter Robinson, "Shelter". Robinson has said regarding the song's meaning:

“[...] I was very much attached to these online worlds, and MMORPGs [...] and the thing about these games is that when an online roleplaying game that millions of people are connected to goes away, when the game ceases to be profitable and the servers shut down, it's not like other games where ten years down the line you can just plug in the cartridge and bask in the nostalgia. It's not like that. Once those games are gone, those worlds that you've very much immersed yourself in are gone, and that was a big deal to me when my favorite games disappeared and I couldn't go there anymore, and as an adult now, I think it's just a very kind of romantic notion. That's why I think the whole idea of, like, a beautiful apocalypse is really evocative to me, I love that. [...] This is a beautiful world kind of disappearing in a clean way.”^[1]

Rips

The song first appeared on the channel in "Good Night - Undertale". After this rip was uploaded, the channel took a week-long break, which lead fans to think that the channel had ended. This gave the song significance within the SiIvaGunner community, and since then it has occasionally been featured in emotionally-driven rips, such as "Stickerbush Symphony (OST Version) - Donkey Kong Country 2" in the case of the channel's 1-year anniversary, or "Circus (Solo Version) - Five Nights at Freddy's" in the case of being single on Valentine's Day.

The initial use of the song spawned a meme in the community wherein people will jokingly assume that the channel is ending when rips are posted with this song. This running joke amongst fans culminated in the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival, wherein the channel went into a month long hiatus after the Goodbye to a World Fusion Collab was posted. This finale marked the shutdown of the SiIva A.I. and the disappearance of Wood Man.

The song's use in the fusion collab led to its later association with the SiIva A.I. as a character, as it along with the song "Ash and Dust" would be quoted in original songs and rips related to him.

Lyrics

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Thank you
I'll say goodbye soon
Though it's the end of the world
Don't blame yourself now

And if it's true
I will surround you
And give life to a world
That's our own

Thank you
I'll say goodbye soon
Though it's the end of the world
Don't blame yourself now

And if it's true
I will surround you
And give life to a world
That's our own

Thank you
I'll say goodbye soon
Though it's the end of the world
Don't blame yourself now

And if it's true
I will surround you
And give life to a world

Thank you
I'll say goodbye soon
Though it's the end of the world
Don't blame yourself

And if it's true
I will surround you
And give life to a world
That's our own

Thank you
Say goodbye soon
Though it's the end of the world
Don't blame yourself now

And if it's true
I will surround you...