The Good In Goodbye

"The Good in Goodbye" (working title "Doomy") is the third song from The Smashing Pumpkins' rock opera, ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts. Billy Corgan has described the song as a "cosmic Sabbath song" and one of his favorites off of the album. The beeping sound effect at the beginning of the track is a recording of the Sputnik 1 satellite (the first artificial satellite).

Synopsis
In the story of ATUM, "The Good in Goodbye" is sung by seraphim angels. The track begins with a beeping sound effect, which signals that the main character, Shiny, is breaking out of Earth orbit and onto the Sun as a form of noble suicide, known as "The March of Life." The angels are singing to Shiny. He seemingly is doomed to die, but the seraphim are foreshadowing that he is very important in this moment and his destiny isn't over yet. As Shiny passes by the dark of the moon, he notices unexpected things on its surface, and ultimately realizes that the universe and the world presented to him are not what they seem.