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Good Til Now Lyrics
Balled out, wasted and I feel I’m going down.
Balled out, wasted and I feel I’m going down.
Goodbye, darling, I been good till now.
I went walking with a girl as pure as milk.
I went walking with a girl pure as milk.
Standing on the corner, sweating through a yellow silk.
Rocks in my pocket and a devil on my back.
Rocks in my pockets and a devil on my back.
You won’t even come across the tracks.
Balled out, wasted and I feel I’m going down.
Balled out, wasted and I feel I’m going down.
Goodbye, darling, I been good till now.
Balled out, wasted and I feel I’m going down.
Goodbye, darling, I been good till now.
I went walking with a girl pure as milk.
Standing on the corner, sweating through a yellow silk.
Rocks in my pockets and a devil on my back.
You won’t even come across the tracks.
Balled out, wasted and I feel I’m going down.
Goodbye, darling, I been good till now.
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errorcore On Nov 13, 2007
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Another sad murder ballad, representing our sad human condition, since the beginning when Cain kills Able and to this very day - hopefully we'll figure it out soon. Don't understand the 'yellow silk' part though.
[Edit: Capitalized names and added a thought]
The meaning for me in this song stems from a particular experience I had that shaped it for me.
One night I went to the "pop oracle" event called Radio 8-ball. A guest musician puts 12 songs they can play on a board and the entire crowd writes questions on papers and then puts them in a box. A slip is chosen with the left had (I believe for synchronicity's benefit) and then that person spins a zodiac wheel (again with the left hand) which selects a song from the board that is then played by the guest musician. All of this ritual and theatre serves to connect one random persons question with some random song performed like a musical 8-ball to answer the question and then give room for them to discuss with the host and crowd how the felt about and interpreted the answer.
My situation: I was struggling with a failing relationship in dire straights that I was struggling to save.
My question: "Should I continue to strive and struggle and persevere in this endeavour or should I let go and prepare to move on."
My "pop oracle" answer was this song.
I wept openly on stage during the entire performance. These lines following lines help purge the feelings I had about how hard things were with her: "Rocks in my pockets and a devil on my back. You won't even come across the tracks."
And I also heard an affirmation of how it was worth expending the effort to respect the relationship and try to heal. It was good til now, but with the energy expended it was time to say goodbye to my darling. "Balled out, wasted and I feel I'm going down. Goodbye, darling, I been good till now."
I see a strong correlation between the song and the life of Virginia Wolf. She suffered from great depression 'devil on my back' A final love letter to her husband 'goodbye now'. She loaded her pockets with rocks and walked into a river and drowned-suicide 'rocks in my pockets'. She had a love affair with another woman 'a girl pure as milk'. Her final thoughts in the letter was about feeling the onset of a terrible depression but she had been 'Good till now'.