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Wouldn't It Be Good Lyrics
I got it bad
You don't know how bad I got it
You got it easy
You don't know when you got it good
It's getting harder
Just keeping life and soul together
I'm sick of fighting
Even though I know I should
The cold is biting
Through each and every nerve and fibre
My broken spirit is frozen to the core
I don't want to be here no more
Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes
Even if it was for just one day
And wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away
Wouldn't it be good to be on your side
The grass is always greener over there
Wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care
You must be joking
You don't know a thing about it
You've got no problem
I'd stay right there if it were you
I got it harder
You couldn't dream how hard it got it
Stay out of my shoes
If you know what's good for you
The heat is stifling
Burning me up from the inside
The sweat is coming through each and every pore
I don't want to be here no more
I don't want to be here no more
Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes
Even if it was just for one day
And wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away
Wouldn't it be good to be on your side
The grass is always greener over there
And wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care
You don't know how bad I got it
You got it easy
You don't know when you got it good
It's getting harder
Just keeping life and soul together
I'm sick of fighting
Even though I know I should
The cold is biting
Through each and every nerve and fibre
My broken spirit is frozen to the core
I don't want to be here no more
Even if it was for just one day
And wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away
Wouldn't it be good to be on your side
The grass is always greener over there
Wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care
You don't know a thing about it
You've got no problem
I'd stay right there if it were you
I got it harder
You couldn't dream how hard it got it
Stay out of my shoes
If you know what's good for you
The heat is stifling
Burning me up from the inside
The sweat is coming through each and every pore
I don't want to be here no more
I don't want to be here no more
Even if it was just for one day
And wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away
Wouldn't it be good to be on your side
The grass is always greener over there
And wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care
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It's purely about "the grass" being "greener" on the other side. How we imagine things would be better "if only..." instead of loving what we have and who we already are.
I always loved this song and the video from the eighties. Now, I hear something that I didn't at a younger age.
It's a two-sided dialogue. One party is telling how they are struggling and unhappy: restless.
The other party is the chorus: Those who think it would "be good" to be the first party.
The former tries to explain their eror, but the chorus remains unchanged each time. I imagine a celebrity and their fans. Artists make their work look easy, and fans imagine that it truly would be all "good" if they could live their imagined perceptions of a celebrity's life.
The video was always eerie and omenous to me, and now I see a bit more... The character constantly reflects and carries the experiences of others right within his person. It's not something he can control, and yet it is what drives him. Others wish they could be in his place, though he tells them that it's not all that they imagine it to be. He lives, like an alien, among others and eventually must return to from wherever he came, possibly as only energy when he finds a device that can take him home.
It's a pretty somber theme to me.
-Phase
A very nicely written and well thought out summary. I never thought of the artist/performer angle, but so many other polar positions... I feel like the cold could be perceived failure, and the heat could be perceived success - the one who watches the success wants it but the one who experiences it wishes they didn't have it. But the lyrics are so visceral and physical. "The cold is biting through each and every nerve and fibre." "The heat is stifling, burning me up from the inside." These have to be two of the best...
A very nicely written and well thought out summary. I never thought of the artist/performer angle, but so many other polar positions... I feel like the cold could be perceived failure, and the heat could be perceived success - the one who watches the success wants it but the one who experiences it wishes they didn't have it. But the lyrics are so visceral and physical. "The cold is biting through each and every nerve and fibre." "The heat is stifling, burning me up from the inside." These have to be two of the best lines ever written. They say the same thing from opposite sides. The whole song is a perfect balance of emotional imbalances. Love it.
Adore this song...
When I first heard the song, I was a kid. I thought about WWI, how there were the Germans facing the British in the trenches, and how each side felt.
"I got it bad You don't know how bad I got it"
and
"You must be joking You don't know a thing about it"
Both sides have an idealised image of life on the other side. My childhood interpretation doesn't fit with the video, but it still means something to me.
The video has more than a passing resemblance to The Man in the White Suit
On first considering the lyrics recently, without remembering the video, is that it’s about mental illness, namely depression.
Someone with suicidal depression envies someone whose life isn’t likely that great, but the depression makes him see it that way.
this song reminds me of the breakfast club
I\'ll be out in left field with this.\n\nAs a person who is autistic / Asperger\'s, these lyrics resonate hard with me. \n\nThe whole feeling of being an alien in the midst of people who you can talk to, but you either can\'t understand or those who can\'t understand you.\n\nTrying to \'fit in\' in an alien landscape.