Good Clean Fun

I'm pretty sure it's about a philandering lover.

I can't believe there aren't more comments on this song! It's so...eerie. And dark! Like much of Cat Power's music. I could listen to this over and over!

I think it talks about heroin use. There is also a documentary that follows several young heroin users from the 90s or early 2000s (I wish I could remember the name of it), but this song was used in the intro.

Being a recovering heroin addict and alcoholic myself (clean almost 5 years), I feel like there are multiple examples or metaphors for what it's like for someone, typically a recreational user of softer drugs, or more intermediate drugs like Rx painkillers, coke, benzos, and then the hard drugs like heroin–most people start sniffing or smoking it–and the start of heroin use seems to be like the beginning of no more good clean fun...

But some people, like myself, can use recreationally for very cheap and still maintain jobs, relationships, go to parties and be social, keep up with hobbies, etc... but then comes the time where you're smoking or snorting more than you can afford and it ain't doing a good job anymore, and that's a decision I had to make. And it's a very fucked up decision/place to be in life that people shouldn't ever have to deal with.

And that's either stopping while you're (somewhat ahead), or you figure you're already in too deep, and so you make that decision to start shooting it. And for me and most people, that's where all that other stuff/functioning deteriorates and then goes away quickly, and then after that there really is no more good clean fun. That first one is the best, and you think that after it, there will be so many good ones... then there isn't. It just becomes a dark world of sickness and slave-like maintenance.

i feel like this song is about how sex can ruin a clean friendship with someone and turns it into more of a fwb type of thing, then you just end up using each other for your own desires instead of having good clean fun. But thats just my interpretation. im sure i could be wrong.