"Goodbye Horses" is a song recorded by American singer Q Lazzarus. It was written by Q Lazzarus's bandmate, William Garvey, and released in 1988, with an extended version released three years later. It is a synth-pop, dark wave, and new wave song with lyrics based on "transcendence over those who see the world as only earthly and finite" and androgynous vocals from Q Lazzarus.
Goodbye Horses
After being picked up in a taxi by Q Lazzarus, director Jonathan Demme used "Goodbye Horses" in his 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, making it a cult hit.
The use of "Goodbye Horses" in The Silence of the Lambs, in which Jame Gumb, played by Ted Levine (pictured), does his makeup and dances naked to the song, was praised by critics, who considered the song and the scene inextricable from one another.
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Married to the Mob is a 1988 American crime comedy film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, and Alec Baldwin. Pfeiffer plays Angela de Marco, a gangster's widow from Brooklyn, opposite Modine as the undercover FBI agent assigned the task of investigating her mafia connections.
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