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A low riding junkie girl
Rode down south to yr little world like a dream
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to be like me
I wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero
If I wasn't such a zero
Good to go
All I ever see around here is things of hers that you left lying around
It's all I ever see around here
She kicked new york like a curse
And you traced her footsteps in reverse up to queens
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to be like me
I wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero
If I wasn't such a zero
Good to go
All I ever see around here is things of hers that you left lying around
It's all I ever see around here
Some empty envelopes from some other town
It's all I ever see around here
I'm waiting for something that's not coming
Rode down south to yr little world like a dream
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to be like me
I wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero
If I wasn't such a zero
Good to go
All I ever see around here is things of hers that you left lying around
It's all I ever see around here
She kicked new york like a curse
And you traced her footsteps in reverse up to queens
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to be like me
I wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero
If I wasn't such a zero
Good to go
All I ever see around here is things of hers that you left lying around
It's all I ever see around here
Some empty envelopes from some other town
It's all I ever see around here
I'm waiting for something that's not coming
Lyrics submitted by EnjOy IncUbus
Track duration: 02:25
"Good to Go" as written by Thomas Bobo Cooper, Sue C. Smith
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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A low riding junkie girl
Rode down south to yr little world like a dream
(this is drugs coming to his world, and kicking in like a dream)
''You can do it if you want to''
(social pressure into talking drugs by a friend or close one)
I wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero
(he takes them because he has low self esteem)
She kicked new york like a curse
And you traced her footsteps in reverse up to queens
(the heroin became a trend in new york between his friends? because someone from Queens introduced them to (the one that says ''you can do it if you want to''))
All I ever see around here is things of hers that you left lying around
(the effects of taking them is what's left maybe)
Some empty envelopes from some other town
It's all I ever see around here
(envelopes = empty needles?)
I'm waiting for something that's not coming
(the real happiness he was promised or to be like the first person (''you can do it if you want to''))
I think that this is about a junkie girl who Elliott fell for. I think her drug use inspired Elliott to use drugs too. I think the line "you can do it if you want to be like me" is from the girl's perspective. She's telling Elliott he can use drugs and if he does he will be like her. He thinks she is pretty awesome, so this seems like a good thing to him. In a way she is his hero (his drug-use hero), so the line "I wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero" is him saying he wouldn't need to look up to her or do drugs because of her if he wasn't 'such a zero'. So in this case I think "good to go" means "ready to use drugs". Then she takes off and leaves him alone. He tries to find her, walking around the city to all the places she might be, but she is long gone. All he has now are memories and old letters. He realizes she's not coming back. There is a possibility that she died (overdosed maybe) but it seems more consistent with the lyrics that she simply left because she was a whirlwind - she blew into town, changed Elliott, and left just as abruptly.
The unspoken implication is that Elliott is now hooked on drugs but the reason he got hooked is long gone. This is a common addict story, not the girl part, but that you might start for one reason but after a while that reason no longer matters. You don't even really get high anymore, so it's not even about having fun. It becomes about not wanting to feel bad, about avoiding the withdrawals. This is a side note, but it is interesting to think about the girl as an allegory [is that the right term?] for any fleeting reason a person might find themselves drawn towards drug use.
that of a gusto that leads to knowing things by conflict
and that of the Father-feather or little smoke by which one becomes as a ghost to life and sees all as it is by means of the thin smoke, invisibly, the observer
...and he preferred the latter:
"they'll make a whisper out of you...I'm lying down, blowing smoke from my cigarrette. little whispy smoke signs that you'll never get." - Condor Ave., Elliott Smith ...the stick man flashing a fine line smile, junk bond treader trying to sell a sucker his stuff: rich man in a poor mans clothes...
A low riding junket girl
[listen close he says Junket. I was like what? so I look it up and you won't believe this definition: 'Business and/or pleasure trip taken at someone elses expense.']
[so what is he intimating?..maybe Hagia Sophia/the Wisdom World of the Astral that came down here into Samsara/Illusion/fleeting materiality we live in now that we came down from the stars in to this planet along with - on to this film - so long ago...'the fall,' whatever you want to call it]
rode down south to the nether/another/a yellow world
like a dream...
["Next door the TV is flashing blue frames on the wall - when imitation puts you on like a habit, riding in the glow of the TV static - its a comedy of errors you see, it's about taking a fall..to finish/vanish into oblivion, it's easy to do. And I try to Be..." - Elliott Smith, albeit a bit pastiched for illustrative purposes of what I think he is speaking of here]
[And Hagia thus sayeth back to him:]
'you can do it if you want to..
you can do it if you want to..
you can do it if you want to be/lead/live/breathe like me'
[and he says to himself and to her:]
I wouldn't be a hero if I wasn't such a zero, good to go
[and maybe he says this in prayer Addressing God about this earth:]
all I ever see around here is things of hers that You left lying around
it's all I ever see around here...
she caned/came at New York [New Beginnings] like a curse
we traced her footsteps in reverse
[Something went wrong when we were in our youth, oh 'Man', I don't know what. Thom Yorke says when you do what we do you reveal things that have not yet happened, like his album drawing he did of two flaming towers before 911...maybe Elliott was also prescient here.]
up to Queens...
[this is when Joanna Bolme came and they were living together in New York awhile and she asked him to go get cigarrettes for her so she could pack and abandon him even though they weren't even in an arguement. 'Traced her footsteps in reverse up to Queens.' She was the love of his life, the only, 'the Queen(s)': a little Jewess with Catholic dreams of a never never world that he couldn't go to cause he didn't understand. So he went off a cliff crying to try to kill himself but survived impaled by *the tree* and woke up to find all his friends not 'there for him' but circling around in 'intervention' ..where the Body is there the Vultures will gather...there they were (?) locking him in a 1984 styled Psych Ward hell hole against his will that would not let him out but strapped him violently and doing much worse for almost a month before he finally got out. He never looked at humans the same after that.]
you can do it if you want to
X3 ..be like me
I wouldn't be a hero if I wasn't such a zero, good to go
all I ever see around here are
things of hers that you left lying around
it's all I ever see around here soul/sir
are empty armour boats/amore boats/envelopes from some other town
[Virgil says we are Spirits from another realm languishing here in a river earth of forgetfullness..."Flow it down like an armour my setting son" - Kings Crossing, Elliott Smith]
all I ever see around here are
waiting for something that's not coming
[most will be food for the moon at death, the atheists are more right according to earlier archaic teachings taught by all our own religions we stupidly follow falsely and lazily now with hopes of a tomorrow in 'heaven' they never promised....ony the hero's and the zero's make it out...only they contact the 'circle of conscious humanity']
"...a man in the park read the lines in my head, told me I'm strong, hardly ever wrong. I said 'man you mean You'
had plans for both of us that involved a trip out of town
to a place I've seen in a Maga Zine
that Jude/You've left lying around" - Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith became a permanent Maga Zine (Mega Life) in this filthy little Zoo-on here, even if you didn't see it. Too bad for you. Go have a smoke with fem-boys like Flaming Lips singer who said Elliott was everything you didn't want in a human. F*%k him though, and all hail our little fragment of the El Elyion in all.
To me this suggests a junkie girl appears in his (whoever, not necessarily Elliott) life and he admires her while aware of her drug use (junkie girl rode down south to your little world like a dream). She says he can do it if he wants to twice, almost taunting and persuasive (if you want to be like me). He pauses on his low self esteem and analyzes why he is considering it (wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero) before finally deciding to try it (good to go). Then the girl vanishes as quickly as she came (things she left lying around, kicked new york like a curse) and he searches for her to no avail (traced her footsteps in reverse, empty envelopes, I'm waiting for something that's not coming).
" wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero
If I wasn't such a zero
"
suicide is lame.
we all love you elliott.
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