Something good, oh something good tonight will make me forget about you for now.
Get high, hit the floor before you go.
Matador, estocada, you're my blood sport.
But something good tonight will make me forget about you for now
Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you,
Now that I'm fully clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view.
Get high, hit the floor before you go.
Matador, estocada, you're my blood sport.
Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you,
Now that I am clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view.
But something good tonight will make me forget about you for now.
Get high, hit the floor before you go.
Matador, estocada, you're my blood sport.
But something good tonight will make me forget about you for now
Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you,
Now that I'm fully clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view.
Get high, hit the floor before you go.
Matador, estocada, you're my blood sport.
Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you,
Now that I am clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view.
But something good tonight will make me forget about you for now.
Lyrics submitted by shemovesshe, edited by Shafro, arans
Something Good Lyrics as written by Gwilym David Dylan Sainsbury Augustus Figaro Niso Unger-hamilton
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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"Something Good is a song that documents the death of a matador.
This gruesome event acts as an analogy for the slow mending of a broken heart through fun distractions.
The death of the matador represents the end of the crush."
Not asking you to agree with me, but just go with the notion for a second:
The song is about recovering from an addiction to heroin. About how he knew he was flaunting with something dangerous and addictive, thought it was almost glamorous and just as it does with everyone, took him by surprise.
He describes how going to watch live football ('48,000 seats' is Manchester City stadium prior to when the song was released), shouting and weeping helped him recover.
He goes on about how 'something good' (as in something actually wholesome) will help him forget about heroin for a while.
Finally, check out their names - they are from super posh families, can't imagine them bringing the embarrassment of singing about smack in a song would go down well.
:)
The matador, like the user, plays a risky game (blood sport) that they ultimately love. The roar of the crowd, like the thrill of the high, is part of the draw for the matador. Once the user is fully clean, his matador side of him is 'dragged from view'
And roars for my memories of you" on heroin addiction the memories remain and there is still a part of the person who wants to get high, so seats that have ocupied his memorie with the heroin memories bleat for more. I think you are right my friend.
My interpritation of the song is that of someone looking for something or someone to help them get over a tragic event of their life. Such as the death of a loved one, end of a relationship or perhaps something very improtant to them being taken away.
A more in depth analysis
"blood sport" could refer to the feelings that the aformentioned tragic event has rid them of, for example they felt exhileratd while playing with their father.
The line "now that I am clean" (now that the tragic event has passed the feelings of happieness, exitement and exhilleration are no more)
But it's what we get out of a song that matters, it could just be one word in the right note that gives a song it's meaning, but this is just my interpritation of the song as I heard it at 3am.
The Matador= a person who has becomed someone else beside what he really is due to the crowds roar( in simple way, when you do something in need of attention).
The Bull= Innocence
Conclusion= Matador bows at The Crowd at expense of The (poor thing) Bull.
You may look appreciated superficially but it leaves a MARK into your inner self.
You cannot runaway of your "inside" conflicts, maybe you will forget for a short period but you will carry them with you forever. So what good camed out of this whole sensless "sport"?
I think this song is about a guy, that acts like a matador, and everybody knows it. As always happens, the bull is the victim, but not this time because the matador felt in love. Therefore the matador is dead, and now that he's clean from the show he used to be part of, he needs to find something good to forget about her.
"Matador, estocada, you're my blood sport" and "Get high, hit the floor before you go" leads me to believe that the Matador is a metaphor for the unstable love or relationship the narrator had with another person- this would also be comparing that relationship to a dangerous game with the "high before you hit the floor" being the rush of being in love before the inevitable heartbreak.
Because the crowd generally cheers for the matador to win and the bull (the narrator) is more a victim, "Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you" the crowd would be the effort and determination to keep that relationship alive and the bleats which I assume come from the bull would be the strain the relationship has put on him.
"Now that I'm fully clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view" makes me believe that the relationship failed with the "clean" relating the the high of being in love I mentioned earlier.
The narrator is the bull, but killing the Matador is not really a victory because it was only done for his survival. The main line "Something good, oh something good tonight will make me forget about you for now" is more the narrator trying to find distraction in the aftermath of losing that love.
Specifically, I think the song is about love, but it really can be about any instance where a person tries to deal with loss, by trying to find a replacement, rather than simply eliminate or manage the degree of need.
The song begins where it leaves off. The two lines are almost identical, signifying the strategy and process of trying to forget a previous lover by quickly taking on and running towards another, when it is love which seemingly injured or almost injured him in the first place. Dude is probably a sex addict as evidenced by the irrational nature of the song. But, then again, maybe he simply likes knowing lots of people. Maybe he has abandonment issues and is addicted to connecting with people and yearns for a sense of connection.
This represents the gamble and the sport in it all: the "bloodsport". They get high(sex/connect/submit), then get down(withdrawal for that feeling), the "crowd"(his conscious) screams(for more), and he move is forced to move on(don't know why we do this, we just do).