Good Times Gone Lyrics
This song is about how people try to buy their good times.-----------LH
I've always thought that this song was just Chad remembering those good times in his life, remembering back to a simpler time in life, a more innocent time in life. "Where the good times gone? All the stupid fun, And all that shit we done"
To me, this song is about remembering all the fun you had with your friends. Where did the times go?
yeah its definately about the good old days with friends, i reckon.
it's about virginity. i used to think i was just being perverted about the first couple of lines, but i think i'm right. Look at the lyrics. and its about how you can't just go back to holding hands.
The best things in life are free... You can have so much fun without having to buy it. Remembering when you were younger and you didnt need to have money to have fun. You just made your own. Now that we have grown up and matured, its easy to see that now we cant get the fun of our youth back, no matter what we do or where we look.
There's a couple lines were I can see the meaning being about losing one's virginity...he talks about 'where it was lost' in quite a few...and then he mentions that paying for it doesn't count. But I think looking at the whole song, it really is about reminiscing about the good old days, and all the fun that was had back then. Now, it's more than likely that losing his virginity was a part of thost good old days....
There's a couple lines were I can see the meaning being about losing one's virginity...he talks about 'where it was lost' in quite a few...and then he mentions that paying for it doesn't count. But I think looking at the whole song, it really is about reminiscing about the good old days, and all the fun that was had back then. Now, it's more than likely that losing his virginity was a part of those good old days....
i've always read this as being about love..
in the first verse he talks about the places he lost "it" (ie love) - in the chesterfield - maybe something happened with someone which caused a rift or whatever, gambling/diamonds - greed caused him to lose a sense of himself, and ultimatly his ability to love?
"Saw it on the silver screen " not entirely sure about this one.. always thought of it as a movie screen.. like in the cinema or something. maybe films present us with this idealistic view of relationships and life etc Preacher says, "don't know what it means" - criticising religion and it's inability to explain what life and llove are really about
"Last page ad in a comic book " - we've all seen those "adult phone lines" adverts in magazines.. if it really is about love then this line basically says that you won't find love there, only lust
"It ain't carved of stone or made of wood " - people carve there loved ones initials in rocks and trees?? maybe that real love doesnt need to be declared like this
"And if you paid for it, then it's still no good " ie paying for "love" (prostitutes?) isn;t the same, or in any way comparable
thats just how i've always seen it.....
when they were recording this, the guitarist from big wreck, one of chads favorite bands was in town. they invited him to come up and play the slide on the song. "it is different from stuff we've done before, we've never really gone that bluesy and just to watch him lay down tracks... there must have been 15 people in the recording studio and we were all just sitting there with our jaws on the floor. everybody sat there stoned-faced staring at ian playing the slide and it was just breathtaking."