"Goodbye Blue Sky" is part of Pink Floyd's seminal album The Wall, the creation of founding member Roger Waters. It's a concept album centered on the character Pink, who is in many ways an outcrop of Waters' psyche. The song finds Pink in early adolescence, already beset by fear in the aftermath of World War II in England ("Did you hear the falling bombs?"). He's getting ready to set out on his own, leaving behind any childhood innocence - the "blue sky."
On the vinyl version of the album, "Goodbye Blue Sky" is the first track on Side 2 (The Wall was a double album). In an interview around the album's release, Roger Waters described the song as being a recap of the first side of album one, summing up Pink's life to that point. As Waters says, in it's most simplistic form "it's remembering one's childhood and then getting ready to set off into the rest of one's life."
The child who says the line, "Look mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky" is Roger's son Harry, who was only two years old at the time. Harry, like his father, also became a musician.
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