During Fiona Apple’s interview with Vulture, she explains the meaning of each song in this album. I lost my breath upon realizing this song resonated with myself and others who were understood, given a voice and defended through this song. As well as building the strength and bravery to escape the memory and events which were swallowed and shoved as far down as possible. It’s OK to begin to vomit it up, heal and not fear speaking your truth. “It’s one of those situations where she didn’t consider it rape because of the relationship she had with this person. On top of that, this person was so fucked up that they didn’t know who she was. And so she assumed they didn’t know they had done this to her. She spent years protecting him from the knowledge of that, and in so doing, really hurt herself. She was like, “Did it really happen?” And I was like, “That sounds like it really fucking happened. What you’re describing. Yeah, that’s rape.” That song was a very difficult one to do, because you don’t want to be too literal, but you also want to put some things in there for this woman so the guy knows she knows. Even though it’s an awkward thing to say in a song - “You raped me” - some people need to say it out loud in order to understand that’s what happened to them. And my hope is that maybe some women and men will be able to sing along with that line and allow it to tell the truth for them. Because sometimes it’s just really hard to say, especially if you don’t want to hurt the person who did it to you. It’s hard to say something that harsh about it. So even though I felt like, Wow, it’s just a clunky thing to put in the middle of a song, I also feel it’ll be important to the people it matters to.”
She’s totally right about needing to say It out loud. Singing that bridge along with her helps take away the power in the word, too. I wish I could thank her myself for helping my healing process.
@@Zoo1Luu, can you please let her know that I thank her, too, please? And that I appreciate that she is here with us on this trauma-filled orb to sing for the silenced.❤
My 14 year old daughter recommended this album. I had heard of her but did not venture. She has 3 vinyls. One day I told her show me what is so good about her? Now I can appreciate her music, this album is a master piece. So glad I gave her a chance, she is iconic. Thanks Emy for showing me her music.
That... bridge. FUCKING... HELL. First time I heard it, I went from “the subject seems rather dark, but I’m loving the somewhat upbeat, perky instrumental.” to my jaw dropped for a whole minute in sheer, utter shock and unsettlement. Such a beautiful, haunting, twisted last minute on such a good, bloody track. The decade’s just started and this is album’s already up there as one of the best, I now fully understand the praise this wild batch of songs is getting, this is amazing. This is my first Fiona Apple album, and from the looks of it, I don’t think it’ll be the last I’ll listen to.
when she said Look at how feathered his cocks are See how seamless his frocks are Look at his paper-beating over that rockstar Look at how long she walks and how far Was she lost? Or Maybe she was not for travelling in the stock car, anymore Maybe she spent her formative years Dealing with his contentious fears And endless jeers and her endless tears Or maybe she's got tired of watching him Sniff white off a starlet's breast Treating his wife like less than a guest Getting his girl to clean up his mess Never showing weakness unless it's award's season It's the season of the ward And she's trying to cut the cord She's tired of planting her knees on the cold, hard floor of facts Trying to act like the other girl acts And you strike me, I've been exact But you know that you never really go to the mat You tie everything all pretty in the second act When you know that it didn't go exactly like that You arrive and drive by, like a sauced up bat Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at You arrive and drive by, like a sauced up bat Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at You arrive and drive by, like a sauced up bat Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at Like you know, you should know, but you don't know what you did Like you know, you should know what happened when I came to bed Like you know, you should know, but you don't know Like you know, you should know, but you don't know Like you know, you should know, but you don't know what you did Well, good morning, good morning You raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in Good morning, good morning Good morning, good morning (Like you know, you should know, but you don't know Like you know, you should know, but you don't know Like you know, you should know, but you don't know) You were so high You were so high You were so high i felt that
Those harmonies juxtaposed with the percussion in the first part goes through me like a "hot knife." And that powerful "Good morning" bridge to the end -- disturbing and angelic, especially when we know about the songwriter's past.
There’s so much power in her originality. She can turn words into feathers that will tickle you but just as quickly she can spout an alliterative quip and it can hit like a well executed whack from a riding crop.
This is the hot Knife of this album. It was my favorite track from the previous one and I even tho this ain't my favorite from this one I could say that I would hear a full album with only these multiple layered voices type of tracks.
Gah damn it holy hell why have I cheated myself of not knowing this album .. I have failed myself....Fiona please forgive me..Your talent stilll behooves me.
I agree ... This is a DOPE ASS album ! I never doubted that it wouldn't be ... I've followed Fiona since her first album ... I just blows my mind that " The Idler Wheel ..." Wasn't embraced like this ... I loved " Tidal " for what it was ... A great album ... But the real shit dropped when she released " When the Pawn ... " On up till " Fetch the Bolt Cutters " ...This lady is the REAL deal ... Always has been ... Her music is so beautiful It hurts sometimes ...
Damn this Queen has finally reached another level, the beyond hurt and pain level. She combined her pain with all the others that came out. I’m so beyond floored by you Fiona and how strong you are ❤️. She’s warrior level now 💪
At 1:43 I can't help imagining some 80s stockbroker type in a sunlit kitchen, he hears his wife singing 'well, good mornin'!' as she comes down the stairs and thinks 'yeah, I'm going to get a nice hearty breakfast today' and then she follows it with THAT line... and from that moment his entire day goes to pieces - tearful fits inside his car during the morning commute, can't string a sentence together at the office presentation, dead-eyed stares into the mirror on his lunch breaks... its such a damning lyric
Been a fan/admirer of your work since you debuted. Words cannot express how happy I am for you on the release of your latest body of work. I know that the process to get to any release is anxiety ridden and full of despair to an extent - but i just wanted to say 'thank you' and congratulations. You deserve every bit of the praise you're receiving today, even if it has been making you anxious or balled up into a corner of your house, trying to hide away xD. Watching you grow musically has been inspiring and I love the way you think and word things. You are a true artist who lives in reality and writes and sings about real emotions and has always inspired me. No matter how tense or stressful life gets, your music has always been there to help me unravel and discover strength in me I didn't know existed. You speak and see things in ways that i dont think many people understand, and it sets you apart. Thank you again for everything and please don't ever stop making music. I also want to say that its a total dream of mine to sit down and smoke a joint with you over a cup of tea and talk about life. That would be the coolest thing ever.
[Verse 1] Look at how feathered his cocks are See how seamless his frocks are Look at his paper-beating over that rockstar Look at how long she walks and how far Was she lost? Or Maybe she was not for Traveling in the stock car anymore Maybe she spent her formative years Dealing with his contentious fears And endless jeers at her endless tears Or maybe she just got tired of watching him [Verse 2] Sniff white off a starlet's breast Treating his wife like less than a guest Getting his girl to clean up his mess Never showing weakness unless it's a ward's season It's the season of the ward And she's trying to cut the cord She's tired of planting her knees on the cold, hard floor of facts Trying to act like the other girl acts [Pre-Chorus] And your strike may have been exact But you know that you never really go to the mat You tie everything all pretty in the second act When you know that it didn't go exactly like that [Chorus] You arrive and drive by like a sauced up bat Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at You arrive and drive by like a sauced up bat Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at You arrive and drive by like a sauced up bat [Post-Chorus] Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at Like you know you should know, but you don't know what you did Like you know, you should know what happened when I came to bed Like you know you should know, but you don't know Like you know you should know, but you don't know Like you know you should know, but you don't know what you did [Bridge] Well, good morning Good morning You raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in Good morning Good morning Good morning Good morning Good morning (Like you know you should know, but you don't know Like you know you should know, but you don't know Like you know you should know, but you don't know) [Outro] You were so high You were so high You were so high
I agree with you 100% no one has ever sang it like fiona. That good morning goes right through u! .. when I heard the song that I knew what had happened to her but I couldn't believe she did it she recorded it and it made me cry I played it twice in a row I cried twice in a row and I needed a break incredible musician. Composer Female Le n n o n
"sauced up bat" sounds like sociopath i think it makes sense not to use the exact word for a song about a woman that is beginning to undestand her abuse
My brain for some reason explains the sauced up bat line as 'ready to fuck me over any time and you wont care if it hurts me' (so yes, but not limited to sociopaths, I guess.) and then I just kinda want to throw up for a bit because I do not believe the bat in this case to not be a horrifying sexual metaphor, concerning the topic of the song.. (the cool contrast on the album in regards to bats being potentially hurtful objects, is how in Ladies -ladies ladies ladies..- she sings about the fruit bat in reference to her own love for self. I just love that. Whenever I notice shit like this my mind boggles in awe of her creativity..
Which is not to say that she doesnt, in parallel (and very often) uses (near)homophones as a poetic strategy, I think.. Am I your gal or/gallow, - The rib is the shell and the heart is a yolk/yoke - just to be crash cymbals/symbols - on and on and on.). I hadn't noticed the sociopath one yet so thanks for mentioning it 🙏
I’m kinda paralyzed by the lyrics for this particular song. This woman always was a genius but she seems to invent and kinda shift the gradation of term GENIUS far forward with each new record. I’m totally disarmed. Hands down the messiah of modern music. It’s her or no one who could possibly safe nowadays music industry from stupidity and talentless efforts. Brava Fiona👏🏼🙌🏼♥️
As long as people are still listening to this on the future and THEY WILL. I promise you that. It will still matter, and I can guarantee you this album will age like a fine wine and get better with time, and not only that but this album will be revered even more in the future than it is now and I mean that 100% It just won album of the year at the Grammys which is impressive considering it was recorded in her home and not some fuckin million dollar studio. That does a lot for music. It proves you don't need tons of money and fancy gear and exhale dive producers who "know it all" when most just have a greater understanding of how to use gear and a few great bands under their belt on their resumes when in actuality ANYONE could have produced classic albums and a million times out of a million and one would still be hit, popular, classic albums regardless of who recorded and produced them. This shows you can literally record something yourself in your bedroom and make an incredible album with no ones help because she just did it and won a damn GRAMMY for best album of the year. Know why? Because at the end of the day it's not the $5,000 guitar and drum set, the fancy microphones, the perfect room for capturing drum sounds, nor ANY asshole big shot suit and tie A&R guys, the famous producer or any of that to make an excellent album that moves people and wins awards. You know what it really takes? One thing and one thing only. A human being giving it their all and making music with conviction, passion and real emotion captured and recorded AS IS. No auto tune, no quantization, no fancy tricks and new age gear. Just some instruments, (or lack there of) a determined person or people together in a room and any means necessary to capture said music. It's a glorious thing and the is album would be just as amazing without any attention from the Grammys or any other accolades because it moves people. I can almost guarantee when she told the label, the managers, the producers, the A&R or label big wigs what and how she did this they all probably either laughed, said no, hated the idea, told her it was stupid, or a combination of any or all of those. But guess what?! They were all wrong. She did it and you can to and that's the most powerful thing about this record. It's empowering to women, it's honest, it's empowering to humans period, and it's not hiding behind anything or trying to be something that it is not. It's beautiful and it will be looked at as a classic and held in even higher regard when looked upon in many, many years from now as a very import Ian and poignant album created in a time of a global pandemic that perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being cooped up, the feeling of missing "normal life" and missing your loved ones and friends alike. It's beautiful and I'm glad I'm alive to experience such a fantastic work of art and musical genius that pushed the boundaries of what can be done with music and bends the themes and rules that have been constructed and restrictive to exactly HOW music should be made and captured. 10/10 Highly, highly recommend.
Best song from Fetch the Bolt Cutters. For a similar sound check out the artists who have been doing this kind of thing for a while - Poppet, The Dirty Projectors, and the Tune-Yards.
I think this song is way too intense as a final track. The whole album is so charged with emotion that it needs a resolution track. And that is what on I go is. This is my favorite song of the album but it would leave a weird taste in my mouth if it was the las track.
No one has ever said “good morning” with as much commanding power as Fiona in this song and it shows
I never thought anyone could sample that song in this particular way.
I will never not holler this, I don’t care where I am.
It's the line after that really has the power imo..
0:21
During Fiona Apple’s interview with Vulture, she explains the meaning of each song in this album.
I lost my breath upon realizing this song resonated with myself and others who were understood, given a voice and defended through this song.
As well as building the strength and bravery to escape the memory and events which were swallowed and shoved as far down as possible. It’s OK to begin to vomit it up, heal and not fear speaking your truth.
“It’s one of those situations where she didn’t consider it rape because of the relationship she had with this person. On top of that, this person was so fucked up that they didn’t know who she was. And so she assumed they didn’t know they had done this to her. She spent years protecting him from the knowledge of that, and in so doing, really hurt herself. She was like, “Did it really happen?” And I was like, “That sounds like it really fucking happened. What you’re describing. Yeah, that’s rape.”
That song was a very difficult one to do, because you don’t want to be too literal, but you also want to put some things in there for this woman so the guy knows she knows. Even though it’s an awkward thing to say in a song - “You raped me” - some people need to say it out loud in order to understand that’s what happened to them. And my hope is that maybe some women and men will be able to sing along with that line and allow it to tell the truth for them. Because sometimes it’s just really hard to say, especially if you don’t want to hurt the person who did it to you. It’s hard to say something that harsh about it. So even though I felt like, Wow, it’s just a clunky thing to put in the middle of a song, I also feel it’ll be important to the people it matters to.”
She’s totally right about needing to say It out loud. Singing that bridge along with her helps take away the power in the word, too. I wish I could thank her myself for helping my healing process.
well done
@@daisymae1039 I told her. Hang in there. And sing, sing, sing!
@@Zoo1Luu, can you please let her know that I thank her, too, please? And that I appreciate that she is here with us on this trauma-filled orb to sing for the silenced.❤
My 14 year old daughter recommended this album. I had heard of her but did not venture. She has 3 vinyls. One day I told her show me what is so good about her? Now I can appreciate her music, this album is a master piece. So glad I gave her a chance, she is iconic. Thanks Emy for showing me her music.
I love that slight almost imperceptible "fuck you" after the last "like you know you should know but you don't know" at 2:07
That... bridge. FUCKING... HELL. First time I heard it, I went from “the subject seems rather dark, but I’m loving the somewhat upbeat, perky instrumental.” to my jaw dropped for a whole minute in sheer, utter shock and unsettlement. Such a beautiful, haunting, twisted last minute on such a good, bloody track. The decade’s just started and this is album’s already up there as one of the best, I now fully understand the praise this wild batch of songs is getting, this is amazing. This is my first Fiona Apple album, and from the looks of it, I don’t think it’ll be the last I’ll listen to.
Have a listen to " The Idler Wheel ... Hell ... Listen to the let 3 albums by her ... Your gonna LOVE this lady lady lady ...
She is so amazing! I really started listening to her when “Extraordinary Machine,” came out.
The final minute of this song is so transcendent that I don't even know how to process it.. I feel unhinged
I've been thinking exactly about that last minute.
Made my cat stampede like a bucking bull. And that’s not bull.
I love those tracks where she layers her voice in harmony. This sounds like the sequel to Hot Knife.
YESSSS! I totally agree. Great observation.
this reminds me of hot knife so much
Her sister sings with her on both songs.
That transition at 1:10 is PHENOMINAL
You just know that someone who was walking in rhythm to the earlier beat tripped over themselves right then. Just awesome, that whiplash.
Dr. Whippersnatch it gives me chills every time! It’s SO unexpected but fucking brilliant!
Somehow it gives me the same vibes from Simon’s “Obvious Child”.
1: 43 tambien y 2:10 tambien , que buen tema!! que viaje!!
The structure of this entire song is phenomenal
i can’t get over how perfect every song on this record is...she deserved that 10 from pitchfork period
Album of the year already, period
So did The Idler Wheel tho, LBR
@@thesovgc The Idler Wheel is literally my favourite album of all time. It deserves so much more love than it gets
@@asinglebraincell6584 💯
@@thesovgcWhen the pawn ended both
For the women that go through the abuse of a narcissist male (For her). What a beautiful album with the majority feminist/female-relating songs!
Holy sheet the critics were RIGHT for a change. This entire album is an instant classic MASTERPIECE.
when she said
Look at how feathered his cocks are
See how seamless his frocks are
Look at his paper-beating over that rockstar
Look at how long she walks and how far
Was she lost? Or
Maybe she was not for travelling in the stock car, anymore
Maybe she spent her formative years
Dealing with his contentious fears
And endless jeers and her endless tears
Or maybe she's got tired of watching him
Sniff white off a starlet's breast
Treating his wife like less than a guest
Getting his girl to clean up his mess
Never showing weakness unless it's award's season
It's the season of the ward
And she's trying to cut the cord
She's tired of planting her knees on the cold, hard floor of facts
Trying to act like the other girl acts
And you strike me, I've been exact
But you know that you never really go to the mat
You tie everything all pretty in the second act
When you know that it didn't go exactly like that
You arrive and drive by, like a sauced up bat
Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at
Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at
Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at
You arrive and drive by, like a sauced up bat
Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at
You arrive and drive by, like a sauced up bat
Like you know you should know but you don't know where it's at
Like you know, you should know, but you don't know what you did
Like you know, you should know what happened when I came to bed
Like you know, you should know, but you don't know
Like you know, you should know, but you don't know
Like you know, you should know, but you don't know what you did
Well, good morning, good morning
You raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in
Good morning, good morning
Good morning, good morning
(Like you know, you should know, but you don't know
Like you know, you should know, but you don't know
Like you know, you should know, but you don't know)
You were so high
You were so high
You were so high
i felt that
Lol! Me too!
Bless
Creative way to put the lyrics, thanks ❤
@@heavyballoon7770 💗
Has a Prince vibe to it, like the end of Darling Nikki. I like it.
This song is cathartic. The building, tense ball of emotions as it rolls around in your brain-it’s half psychotic and half genius. Talk about art
There are musicians and then there are musical prodigies.
When Fiona comes on, we take a seat.
the sheer power that this has. i can't with herrrrrrr
I can
"like you know you should know but you don't know what you did" captures it so well. the confused almost affronted behaviour.
I felt my soul leave my body in the last act
The last minute really unraveled me.
Those harmonies juxtaposed with the percussion in the first part goes through me like a "hot knife." And that powerful "Good morning" bridge to the end -- disturbing and angelic, especially when we know about the songwriter's past.
My whole head vibrated with this song and I’m quite sure I blacked out at one point
There’s so much power in her originality. She can turn words into feathers that will tickle you but just as quickly she can spout an alliterative quip and it can hit like a well executed whack from a riding crop.
Jeff Blonder snap 💓
This is the hot Knife of this album. It was my favorite track from the previous one and I even tho this ain't my favorite from this one I could say that I would hear a full album with only these multiple layered voices type of tracks.
IM GOING TO PASS OUT
Gah damn it holy hell why have I cheated myself of not knowing this album .. I have failed myself....Fiona please forgive me..Your talent stilll behooves me.
QUEEN OF MUSIC FINALLY IS BACK, 8 YEARS AND IT WAS WORTH IT, ALL THE LOVE FROM PERU AND SOUTH AMERICA
Soy de Perú también! Gracias por existir, hermano! A veces pienso que yo y mi hermana somos los únicos que escuchamos a la diosa Fiona!
This new album is so out of left field, it’s so damn good.
Her vocals are just effing phenomenal
I did not expect this from her.
Jesus Lopez we are truly blessed to live in the same time as Madam Apple
Jesus Lopez I hope corona fucking leaves and Fiona takes this record on tour. It’s so fucking good
You didn’t expect this from her?! Are you new here lol.
@@Jay41 no, but this is extreme for her. As in a radical departure from her previous work. To me at least.
I agree ... This is a DOPE ASS album ! I never doubted that it wouldn't be ... I've followed Fiona since her first album ... I just blows my mind that " The Idler Wheel ..." Wasn't embraced like this ... I loved
" Tidal " for what it was ... A great album ... But the real shit dropped when she released " When the Pawn ... " On up till " Fetch the Bolt Cutters " ...This lady is the REAL deal ... Always has been ... Her music is so beautiful It hurts sometimes ...
Idler was nominated for a Grammy award - but I get what you're saying
i think that it had more to do with the musical landscape in 2012 vs 2020
Fiona.... We missed you. So happy for the new album, thanks.
the outro layers and harmonies feel like their healing me as they go on..... her music remains unmatched
This whole album should be the soundtrack of a single music video, in a stadium, acted out by a high-stepping marching band with cheerleaders.
I love fiona so much... she's the most talented songwriter in the world
The music is so upbeat you start dancing until you pay attention to the lyrics....
No one has ever allowed me feel as she has.
I listen to this in the morning to start my day with some a-cappella and heartbreak... strong work, Queen.
Damn this Queen has finally reached another level, the beyond hurt and pain level. She combined her pain with all the others that came out. I’m so beyond floored by you Fiona and how strong you are ❤️. She’s warrior level now 💪
Ok I was not ready for the masterpiece that this is... She has truly outdone herself.
Liya b seriously. I . Am. Deceased.
Fiona "math rock" Apple
I’ll be looping the album tonight
Absolutely beautiful!! I'm so grateful for the new music!!
This is the best song on the whole beautiful, dissonant, much needed album
OMG GENIUS...I LOVE HER.... So glad shes back...
when Fiona Apple starts spittin fire...mad ting. I love this track.
My gorgeous Fiona I'm so thankful to have your voice in my life.
All hail this brilliant queen. She has moved me and gave me a friend to listen to since I was a teen.
At 1:43 I can't help imagining some 80s stockbroker type in a sunlit kitchen, he hears his wife singing 'well, good mornin'!' as she comes down the stairs and thinks 'yeah, I'm going to get a nice hearty breakfast today' and then she follows it with THAT line... and from that moment his entire day goes to pieces - tearful fits inside his car during the morning commute, can't string a sentence together at the office presentation, dead-eyed stares into the mirror on his lunch breaks... its such a damning lyric
Been a fan/admirer of your work since you debuted. Words cannot express how happy I am for you on the release of your latest body of work. I know that the process to get to any release is anxiety ridden and full of despair to an extent - but i just wanted to say 'thank you' and congratulations. You deserve every bit of the praise you're receiving today, even if it has been making you anxious or balled up into a corner of your house, trying to hide away xD. Watching you grow musically has been inspiring and I love the way you think and word things. You are a true artist who lives in reality and writes and sings about real emotions and has always inspired me. No matter how tense or stressful life gets, your music has always been there to help me unravel and discover strength in me I didn't know existed. You speak and see things in ways that i dont think many people understand, and it sets you apart. Thank you again for everything and please don't ever stop making music. I also want to say that its a total dream of mine to sit down and smoke a joint with you over a cup of tea and talk about life. That would be the coolest thing ever.
This is like a new age 'Happiness is a Warm Gun'. It's easily up in that tier.
I kinda don't want to overlisten and take away the shocking factor. This song should be made an anthem.
After weeks of detailed and thoughtful, deliberation: This is my favourite jam of them all.
Devastating and electrifying. Pure Fiona 💜💙
Favorite song on this album! She did this thing!
ALL HAIL...THE MIGHTY MS. APPLE!!! LONG LIVE FIONA AND HER ENDLESS TALENT!!! 🍎
Hot popcorn during the second act, that's where it's at.
Yesss!!
What a song, magnificent work. This is really something else, you are an amazing songwriter and vocalist.
The whole album is great but right now this is the one I keep repeating. Though it’s a shorter track, it’s full of so much dimension.
This is actually art. Like damn.
This song is perfect
Why is the least listened to song on UA-cam???? This is by far my favourite off the record
I’m guessing it’s because this is the darkest song and the least easy to digest.
This is my absolute fav off the new album.
My favorite music in this pandemic moment. Thanks Fiona.
She really ruined Singing in the Rain for me and I am absolutely ok with that. That's how good this is.
LOL!
why?
@@mailanes8642 1:43. Goooood morning!
i dont get the reference
@@amgm1996 theres a song which starts like good morning in the singing in the rain
I FRIGGIN LOVE THIS TUNE!
for some reason this song was the one that made me sad from the whole album
Brilliant Album
absolutely SOTY (and song of the decade)
This album is bringing me back from the dead 🖤 👻
Why am I just realizing that the ending harmony is “You were so high-iiiiiiii”?
[Verse 1]
Look at how feathered his cocks are
See how seamless his frocks are
Look at his paper-beating over that rockstar
Look at how long she walks and how far
Was she lost? Or
Maybe she was not for
Traveling in the stock car anymore
Maybe she spent her formative years
Dealing with his contentious fears
And endless jeers at her endless tears
Or maybe she just got tired of watching him
[Verse 2]
Sniff white off a starlet's breast
Treating his wife like less than a guest
Getting his girl to clean up his mess
Never showing weakness unless it's a ward's season
It's the season of the ward
And she's trying to cut the cord
She's tired of planting her knees on the cold, hard floor of facts
Trying to act like the other girl acts
[Pre-Chorus]
And your strike may have been exact
But you know that you never really go to the mat
You tie everything all pretty in the second act
When you know that it didn't go exactly like that
[Chorus]
You arrive and drive by like a sauced up bat
Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at
Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at
Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at
You arrive and drive by like a sauced up bat
Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at
You arrive and drive by like a sauced up bat
[Post-Chorus]
Like you know you should know, but you don't know where it's at
Like you know you should know, but you don't know what you did
Like you know, you should know what happened when I came to bed
Like you know you should know, but you don't know
Like you know you should know, but you don't know
Like you know you should know, but you don't know what you did
[Bridge]
Well, good morning
Good morning
You raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
(Like you know you should know, but you don't know
Like you know you should know, but you don't know
Like you know you should know, but you don't know)
[Outro]
You were so high
You were so high
You were so high
This song is a blast
THIS IS MAGIC! oh Fiona i needed you so much
Fiona is a lyrical genius
I agree with you 100% no one has ever sang it like fiona. That good morning goes right through u! .. when I heard the song that I knew what had happened to her but I couldn't believe she did it she recorded it and it made me cry I played it twice in a row I cried twice in a row and I needed a break incredible musician. Composer
Female Le n n o n
I know I already commented on but again I have to say that good morning has strike almost changed my life the way she sings it
Best song on the whole album.
"sauced up bat" sounds like sociopath
i think it makes sense not to use the exact word for a song about a woman that is beginning to undestand her abuse
isabela de bortolli I think she’s just being clever with her words, as she always has.
@@mrs0rochester (?) well yeah that's basically what i said
Even the a ward season - award season
My brain for some reason explains the sauced up bat line as 'ready to fuck me over any time and you wont care if it hurts me' (so yes, but not limited to sociopaths, I guess.) and then I just kinda want to throw up for a bit because I do not believe the bat in this case to not be a horrifying sexual metaphor, concerning the topic of the song.. (the cool contrast on the album in regards to bats being potentially hurtful objects, is how in Ladies -ladies ladies ladies..- she sings about the fruit bat in reference to her own love for self. I just love that. Whenever I notice shit like this my mind boggles in awe of her creativity..
Which is not to say that she doesnt, in parallel (and very often) uses (near)homophones as a poetic strategy, I think..
Am I your gal or/gallow, - The rib is the shell and the heart is a yolk/yoke - just to be crash cymbals/symbols - on and on and on.). I hadn't noticed the sociopath one yet so thanks for mentioning it 🙏
the harmony, perfect
fiona apple's music is like dissociation personified
Everyone talking about the big lyric but what about the transition at 1:09? Came out of nowhere
That album is full of that tricks
I’m kinda paralyzed by the lyrics for this particular song. This woman always was a genius but she seems to invent and kinda shift the gradation of term GENIUS far forward with each new record. I’m totally disarmed. Hands down the messiah of modern music. It’s her or no one who could possibly safe nowadays music industry from stupidity and talentless efforts. Brava Fiona👏🏼🙌🏼♥️
Fiona thank you so much for this ily
Good Morning, Good morning.....loving this track and the entire album.
I'm crying
masterpiece
Love this song. 🎶💜
Fiona, you are my real hero. ❤️
this is the best song on the universe
Definitely Worth the wait :)
She has enlightened me
This is her "Happiness Is A Warm Gun". They're even the exact same length.
I don't understand!
Yassss soul snatched. Tell your story goddess ❤️
Wow...you have done it again...hmmmm bravo
i suddenly feel alive ♥️
This is an important album! And yes, one day it won't matter. But for now it does.
As long as people are still listening to this on the future and THEY WILL. I promise you that. It will still matter, and I can guarantee you this album will age like a fine wine and get better with time, and not only that but this album will be revered even more in the future than it is now and I mean that 100% It just won album of the year at the Grammys which is impressive considering it was recorded in her home and not some fuckin million dollar studio. That does a lot for music. It proves you don't need tons of money and fancy gear and exhale dive producers who "know it all" when most just have a greater understanding of how to use gear and a few great bands under their belt on their resumes when in actuality ANYONE could have produced classic albums and a million times out of a million and one would still be hit, popular, classic albums regardless of who recorded and produced them. This shows you can literally record something yourself in your bedroom and make an incredible album with no ones help because she just did it and won a damn GRAMMY for best album of the year. Know why? Because at the end of the day it's not the $5,000 guitar and drum set, the fancy microphones, the perfect room for capturing drum sounds, nor ANY asshole big shot suit and tie A&R guys, the famous producer or any of that to make an excellent album that moves people and wins awards. You know what it really takes? One thing and one thing only. A human being giving it their all and making music with conviction, passion and real emotion captured and recorded AS IS. No auto tune, no quantization, no fancy tricks and new age gear. Just some instruments, (or lack there of) a determined person or people together in a room and any means necessary to capture said music. It's a glorious thing and the is album would be just as amazing without any attention from the Grammys or any other accolades because it moves people. I can almost guarantee when she told the label, the managers, the producers, the A&R or label big wigs what and how she did this they all probably either laughed, said no, hated the idea, told her it was stupid, or a combination of any or all of those. But guess what?! They were all wrong. She did it and you can to and that's the most powerful thing about this record. It's empowering to women, it's honest, it's empowering to humans period, and it's not hiding behind anything or trying to be something that it is not. It's beautiful and it will be looked at as a classic and held in even higher regard when looked upon in many, many years from now as a very import Ian and poignant album created in a time of a global pandemic that perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being cooped up, the feeling of missing "normal life" and missing your loved ones and friends alike. It's beautiful and I'm glad I'm alive to experience such a fantastic work of art and musical genius that pushed the boundaries of what can be done with music and bends the themes and rules that have been constructed and restrictive to exactly HOW music should be made and captured.
10/10
Highly, highly recommend.
So strange i was thinking where is Fiona and then there are New Album good timing! Was starting to jones for your music
Best song from Fetch the Bolt Cutters. For a similar sound check out the artists who have been doing this kind of thing for a while - Poppet, The Dirty Projectors, and the Tune-Yards.
My top 4 are Newspaper, For Her, Under the Table, and Cosmonauts but I've yet to decide in which order..
So much truth. 💚
This song would have been an amazing final track.
"On I Go" works perfectly as the final track. I do however wish this was the second to last song.
I think this song is way too intense as a final track. The whole album is so charged with emotion that it needs a resolution track. And that is what on I go is. This is my favorite song of the album but it would leave a weird taste in my mouth if it was the las track.
The reply guy has arrived
"Never showing weakness unless it's a ward's season
It's the season of the ward"
Love that line.
What does it mean ?
Oh my goooooood
How come I’m subscribed with all notifications & it took two years for me to see this. This is serious people!!!