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"Good Girls" lyrics

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"Good Girls"

Killing your idols is a chore
And it's such a fucking bore
'Cause I don't need them anymore
So
Maybe if you just got some guts
We'd kill 'em with a thousand cuts
And say we did it out of love

So save your breath
Give a little of what you have left
Do they know something I don't?

Is it easier when you don't have to count to ten?
When you don't have to pretend?
I want to know that feeling
Is it easier when you don't have to start again?
When you don't want to make amends?
I want to know that feeling

Good girls don't cry
And good girls don't lie
And good girls justify but I don't
Good girls don't die
And good girls stay alive
And good girls satisfy but I won't

They tell me I'm hellbent on revenge
I cut my teeth on weaker men
I won't apologize again
And
I never had a taste for liars
Or the uniquely uninspired
'Cause I don't need to be desired

Is it easier when you don't have to count to ten?
When you don't have to pretend?
I want to know that feeling
Is it easier when you don't have to start again
When you don't want to make amends?
I want to know that feeling

Good girls don't cry
And good girls don't lie
And good girls justify but I don't
Good girls don't die
And good girls stay alive
And good girls satisfy but I won't
No, I won't

Killing your idols is a chore
And it's such a fucking bore
But we don't need them anymore
We don't need them anymore


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Writer(s): Iain Andrew Cook, Martin Clifford Doherty, Lauren Eve Mayberry
Speaking with Annie Mac on Radio 1 on the 12th of July, 2021, Lauren Mayberry told about "Good Girls", "It was about grappling with the idea that we're always told that bad things don't happen to good girls, and if you do all these things and you make yourself small and safe, then you'll be okay, then you'll be acceptable, and I don't find that that is true." She also explained, "The opening line ('Killing your idols is a chore') was something I wrote after listening to some friends arguing about the present day implications of loving certain problematic male artists — I was struck by the lengths that people would go to in order to excuse their heroes and how that was so juxtaposed to my own experiences in the world."
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album: "Screen Violence" (2021)
CHVRCHES - Screen Violence album cover
Asking For A Friend
He Said She Said
California
Violent Delights
How Not To Drown
Final Girl
Good Girls
Lullabies
Nightmares
Better If You Don't
Killer
(Bonus Track)
Screaming
(Bonus Track)
Bitter End
(Bonus Track)
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