This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
He was drawn-out in the dark up in Penetration Park
He says he's got your medication
She was sitting on the edges of his vision trying to start a revolution
But he's done with all the parties, he's covered in contusions
Your life leaves life lines, your rug leaves bright bruises
She said she was cruising
But she came back all proud and out of focus with a cool car
Drank and broke us
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
There are so many nights when this is just how it happens
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
He was dreadlocked in the dorms in the Colorado corn
He says he's got your vegetation
She was sitting on the edge of the bed smoking trying to reach emancipation
And he's done with DVDs, he's fully entertained
He's bleaching out the blood stains, he's got diamonds in the drain
She said that she was coming but she mostly made hard, fast noises
It kinda sounded like The Locust
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
There are so many nights where this is just how it happens
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
It was song number three on John's last CD
"Gonna make it through this year, if it kills me"
And it almost killed me
And song number four on that first D4
You want the scars but you don't want the war
That's just hardcore
These kids are clever to the core
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
He says he's got your medication
She was sitting on the edges of his vision trying to start a revolution
But he's done with all the parties, he's covered in contusions
Your life leaves life lines, your rug leaves bright bruises
She said she was cruising
But she came back all proud and out of focus with a cool car
Drank and broke us
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
There are so many nights when this is just how it happens
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
He was dreadlocked in the dorms in the Colorado corn
He says he's got your vegetation
She was sitting on the edge of the bed smoking trying to reach emancipation
And he's done with DVDs, he's fully entertained
He's bleaching out the blood stains, he's got diamonds in the drain
She said that she was coming but she mostly made hard, fast noises
It kinda sounded like The Locust
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
There are so many nights where this is just how it happens
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
It was song number three on John's last CD
"Gonna make it through this year, if it kills me"
And it almost killed me
And song number four on that first D4
You want the scars but you don't want the war
That's just hardcore
These kids are clever to the core
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
Guys go for looks, girls go for status
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Girls Like Status Lyrics as written by Tad Kubler Craig Finn
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The Hold Steady referencing the Mountain Goats AND linking that reference to their first album? Life cannot possibly get any better.
also: it's "song number four on that first D4"
scott minto is an excellent rugby league player
Thanks, it won't let me edit it however.
anyone know what album this is off? apparently its boys and girls but its not on my copy..... its not even on their website
it's a b-side from boys and girls - shows up on a buncha live bootlegs, including the postive rage album
This is from either the Japanese or Australian version of Boys & Girls.
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Wow, I always liked this song, and I never ever listened to the last chorus and caught all the Mountain Goats references. That's the only MG album I like, too, the first one, so cool.
a) The Sunset Tree is FAR from the first Mountain Goats album. b) If it's the only one you like, you need your ears (and head, and heart) examined.
I knew it, a mountain goats reference. yes!