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Late Goodbye

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Released
  
30 June 2004

Length
  
17:06

Writer(s)
  
Sam Lake

Format
  
CD single

Label
  
Insomniac

Genre
  
Alternative rock, post-grunge, acoustic rock

"Late Goodbye" is a song by the Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall that appeared in the 2003 video game Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne as well as on the band's debut album Signs of Life. It was also the first single released from the album and reached No. 14 on the Finnish Singles Chart as well as No. 1 on Radio SuomiPOP's Top 30 chart.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Late Goodbye" (album version) – 03:47
  2. "Late Goodbye" (radio edit) – 03:18
  3. "Late Goodbye" (unplugged) – 03:33
  4. "Late Goodbye" (piano instrumental) – 03:19
  5. "Everything Fades" – 03:09

Max Payne 2

The song can be heard by the player at various times during the game:

  • It is overheard playing through the headphones of the janitor cleaning the basement of Max's apartment. He also sings and hums along to the lyrics.
  • It is played by a cleaner on a piano for 24 seconds in a room in the apartments where several Inner Circle members live.
  • The game's antagonists often whistle or hum the song when not talking or fighting.
  • Max tries to play different versions of the song on a piano in one of the missions.
  • Mona Sax sings it in the shower at her flat at the closed-down Address Unknown amusement park.
  • It is also heard over the credits upon completion of the game.

    • References

    Late Goodbye Wikipedia
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