Bye Bye by Justin Hayward Phillips

Bye Bye, written and performed by Justin Hayward Phillips.
"Bye Bye is one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written," Justin says. "I was renting a house off Tom Prince. I had this music room and all I did was sing and play, all the time. I just came up with these couple of chords, looked out the window and the words sprung from there - ‘Out the window, there’s snow on the ground, once again.’ I was 26 at the time. The words were about my daughter Carolann, who couldn’t have been more than three or four, playing outside. And it was the middle of summer. I just imagined there was snow there.
"On the ‘Bye bye’ part, the harmonies were meant to stick out, and the guitar solo was supposed to take you away and drag you back in again. The music itself - the guitar playing and the backing track - I did all of that, but it all just fitted around this picture that I had out the window. ‘Down the street, Mrs Jones fills a bucket with coal…’ There is a story in there - a long story, in there. The mask is off when I’m singing that song, because it’s a song about being hurt and upset.
"I went up to Ray’s studio at New House Farm and recorded it on his digital recorder. Everything that I’ve ever done has been done with this little machine called a Yamaha QY20. It’s a sequencer and it’s 20 years old now, but it’s a machine I can get the most sense out of. I added quite a few bits that weren’t in the original QY20 version of Bye Bye - cymbals, a
tambourine and all the harmonies."