Named after the film but lyrically removed from it, “Good Will Hunting”, is driven by unshakably infectious melodies that snake throughout the song. Stabs of drums build things up in punchy bursts as the melody weaves in and out before a final burst of crunchy guitar fires it home with some of Wood’s most intense vocal work on the album. Much like the lyrics to the chorus, consisting of a bunch of made up quotes aimed to mirror multiple people conversing at once, the result is something that feels fluid yet unpredictable.
- via Ninja Tune
A possible reference is that guitarist of BC,NR, Luke Mark, has the Twitter handle “@gr8willhunting”.
Lewis Evans:
"This is another slightly silly one, and it’s got a really silly ending which actually never made the cut on the album, but it’s heavily driven by the riff on the guitars. I think at the time we were listening to quite a bit of Kurt Vile, especially rhythmically. I can remember a conversation about when we wanted the drums to come in and to be super straight, super driven. Then for the choruses, rhythmically, to completely flip and not feel like they were big at all. So for both the choruses, the drums are just tiny."
—via Apple Music
Good Will Hunting
Black Country New Road Lyrics
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Hands out for balance
Slipping, you almost grab mine, but you find your feet
And I never wanted so much someone to fall
It's just been a weekend
But in my mind
We summer in France
And you teach me to play the piano
You call
I'll be there
Once more
I'm scared of
The phone
Don't ring it
Please know
That I'm just trying to find
Some way to keep me in your mind
And later on
Everyone will say it was cool
She had Billie Eilish style
Moving to Berlin for a little while
I'm tryna find something to hold on to
Never text me nothing
But she wants to tell me
She's not that hard to find
And message me if you change your mind
Darling, I'll keep fine
And if we're on a burning starship
The escape pods
Filled with your friends
Your childhood film photos
There's no room for me to go
Oh, I'd wait there
Float with the wreckage
Fashion a long sword
Traverse the Milky Way
Trying to get home to you
And you bring some piece of the stars
You call
I'll be there
Once more
I'm scared of
The phone
Don't ring it
Please know
That I'm just trying to find
Some way to keep me in your mind
And later on
Everyone will say it was cool
She had Billie Eilish style
Moving to Berlin for a little while
Tryna find something to hold on to
Never text me nothing
But she wants to tell me
She's not that hard to find
And message me if you change your mind
Darling, I'll keep flyin'
Everyone will say it was cool
Oh, she had Billie Eilish style
Moving to Berlin for a little while
Tryna find something to hold on to
Never text me nothing
But she wants to tell me
She's not that hard to find
And message me if you change your mind
Darling, I'll keep fine
"Good Will Hunting" by Black Country New Road is a song filled with imagery that vividly describes the emotions of the singer. The first verse describes a scene where the singer is with someone who is struggling to maintain their balance on the raised edge. Despite this, the singer doesn't want to help them because they almost want them to fall. The following lines show the singer daydreaming about spending the summer in France with their "genius daughters" and learning to play the piano. The second verse is more enigmatic and talks about a Billie Eilish-esque girl who's moving to Berlin, but the singer is trying to find something to hold on to. The singer is scared of the phone ringing, and they're just trying to find a way to keep themselves in the other person's mind. In the final verse, the singer talks about being lost in space, trying to find a way back to the person they love. Overall, the song is about the singer's search for something to hold onto, a sense of security and stability while navigating complex emotions.
Line by Line Meaning
You walk up on the raised edge
You step up to the edge, precarious
Hands out for balance
You use your hands to steady yourself
Slipping, you almost grab mine, but you find your feet
You nearly fall and reach out for help, but manage to recover on your own
And I never wanted so much someone to fall
I don't want to see you fail, despite the temptation to help
It's just been a weekend
Our time together has been brief
But in my mind
I've been thinking a lot about it
We summer in France
I imagine us spending a summer in France
With our genius daughters now
We have smart and talented kids
And you teach me to play the piano
You help me learn a new skill
You call
You try to reach out to me
I'll be there
I'll answer your call
Once more
Again, like before
I'm scared of
I'm afraid of
The phone
Answering your call
Don't ring it
Don't call me
Please know
Understand that
That I'm just trying to find
I'm searching for
Some way to keep me in your mind
A method for you to remember me
And later on
In the future
Everyone will say it was cool
Everyone will think it was great
She had Billie Eilish style
She was similar to Billie Eilish
Moving to Berlin for a little while
She went to live in Berlin temporarily
I'm tryna find something to hold on to
I'm searching for stability
Never text me nothing
You don't send me messages
But she wants to tell me
But you want to communicate with me
She's not that hard to find
You're not difficult to locate
And message me if you change your mind
Contact me if you have a change of heart
Darling, I'll keep fine
My well-being is not a concern, I'll be okay
And if we're on a burning starship
In a hypothetical situation where we're on a spaceship on fire
The escape pods
The emergency pods
Filled with your friends
Your friends are already in the escape pods
Your childhood film photos
Your cherished pictures from your childhood
There's no room for me to go
There's no space for me in the escape pods
Oh, I'd wait there
I'd stay behind and wait for another option
Float with the wreckage
I'd stay with the damaged ship
Fashion a long sword
I'd create a weapon
Traverse the Milky Way
I'd travel through space
Trying to get home to you
I'm trying to return to you
And you bring some piece of the stars
You bring a part of the universe with you
Darling, I'll keep flyin'
My journey will continue, regardless of the difficulties
Lyrics © THIRD SIDE MUSIC INC
Written by: Isaac Wood, Luke Mark, Charlie Wayne, May Kershaw, Georgia Ellery, Lewis Evans, Tyler Hyde, Sergio Maschetzko
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@vinhxo2k632
You walk up on the raised edge, hands out for balance
Slip and you almost grab mine but you find your feet
And I never wanted so much someone to fall
It's just been a weekend but in my mind
We summer in France with our genius daughters now
And you teach me to play the piano
You call
I'll be there
What's more
I'm scared of the phone
Don't ring it
Please know
That I'm just trying to find
Some way to keep me in your mind
And later on
Everyone will say "It was cool"
"She had Billie Eilish style"
"Moving to Berlin for a little while"
"Trying to find something to hold on to"
Never texts me nothing but she wants to
Tell me she's not that hard to find
And "Message me if you change your mind"
Darling, I'll keep fine
And if we're on a burning starship
The escape pods filled with your friends, your childhood film photos
There's no room for me to go
Oh, I'd wait there, float with the wreckage, fashion a long sword
Traverse the milky way trying to get home to you
And you bring some piece of the stars
You call
I'll be there
What's more
I'm scared of the phone
Don't ring it
Please know
That I'm just trying to find
Some way to keep me in your mind
And later on
Everyone will say "It was cool"
"She had Billie Eilish style"
"Moving to Berlin for a little while"
"Trying to find something to hold on to"
Never texts me nothing but she wants to
Tell me she's not that hard to find
And "Message me if you change your mind"
Darling, I'll keep fine
Everyone will say "It was cool"
"She had Billie Eilish Style"
"Moving to Berlin for a little while"
"Trying to find something to hold on to"
Never texts me nothing but she wants to
Tell me she's not that hard to find
And "Message me if you change your mind"
Darling, I'll keep fine
@kenmurphy6792
You walk up on the raised edge
Your hands are out for balance
You slip and you almost grab mine, but you find your feet
And I never wanted so much someone to fall
It's just been a weekend
But in my mind we summer in France
With our genius daughters now
And you teach me to play the piano
You call
I'll be there
What's more?
I'm scared of
The phone
Don't ring it
Please know
That I'm just trying to find
Some way to keep me in your mind
And later on
Everyone will say "it was cool"
"She had Billie Eilish style"
"Moving to Berlin for a little while"
"Tryna find something to hold on to"
"Never texts me nothing
But she wants to tell me
She's not that hard to find"
And "message me if you change your mind"
Darling, I'll keep fine
And if we're on a burning starship
The escape pods filled with your friends, your childhood film photos
There's no room for me to go
Oh, I'd wait there, float with the wreckage
Fashion a long sword
Traverse the Milky Way
Tryna get home to you
And you bring some piece of the stars
You call
I'll be there
What's more?
I'm scared of
The phone
Don't ring it
Please know
That I'm just trying to find
Some way to keep me in your mind
And later on
Everyone will say "it was cool"
"She had Billie Eilish style"
"Moving to Berlin for a little while"
"Tryna find something to hold on to"
"Never texts me nothing
But she wants to tell me
She's not that hard to find"
And "message me if you change your mind"
Darling, I'll keep fine
Everyone will say "it was cool"
Aw, "She had Billie Eilish style"
"Moving to Berlin for a little while"
"Tryna find something to hold on to"
"Never texts me nothing
But she wants to tell me
She's not that hard to find"
And "message me if you change your mind"
Darling, I'll keep fine. ~~~
@kenmurphy6792
Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph
The British band’s second album, “Ants From Up There,” arrived days after its primary lyricist, Isaac Wood, announced his departure from the group.
On Jan. 31, four days before the British band Black Country, New Road released its second album, “Ants From Up There,” its vocalist and lead guitarist, Isaac Wood, suddenly announced he was leaving the group, with a statement suggesting mental health struggles. “I have been feeling sad and afraid too,” Wood announced via social media. “I have tried to make this not true but it is the kind of sad and afraid feeling that makes it hard to play guitar and sing at the same time.”
The band canceled a planned tour. Its remaining members have said they will not perform the material written collectively with Wood, but that they would continue making music together, adding, “We’ve already started working on it.”
But the next version of Black Country, New Road can’t help but become a very different band without Wood’s songwriting, lyrics and vocals. On both of its albums, Wood is the band’s frazzled-sounding, acutely self-conscious focal point. There’s usually an anxious quaver in his baritone, and when he raises his voice he reaches a throat-scraping desperation. As the band’s main lyricist, Wood juggles the cryptic and the apparently confessional, the self-lacerating and the absurd. He can sound absolutely tormented; he can also sound like he’s having a bitter laugh at some private joke.
Black Country, New Road released its first singles in 2019, arriving alongside a coterie of virtuosic, genre-scrambling bands including black midi (the two bands have occasionally merged onstage as Black Midi, New Road) and Squid. On its albums, Black Country, New Road is a seven-piece band. Its musical core is the riffy, dissonant drive of post-punk; in “Science Fair,” an early single, Wood refers to being in a band that’s “the world’s second-best Slint tribute act.” But with a lineup that includes saxophone and violin, the band’s tentacles also extend into klezmer, British folk, prog-rock, Minimalism, free jazz and more. Its songs flaunt wayward, episodic structures, rarely ending up remotely near where they began; they sound as if anyone in the group might grab the wheel at any moment. -- Electric guitars, bristling or smoldering, largely defined the band’s 2021 debut album, “For the First Time”; harking back to the post-punk of Slint and the Fall, Wood talk-sang through many of the songs. On “Ants From Up There,” he usually turns to melody instead, while the band toys with chamber-pop and more pastoral sounds. It dials back the guitar distortion and drumbeats and brings acoustic instruments into the foreground; it invokes folk-rock, parlor songs and waltzes. The new songs are still plaints and puzzles, just quieter ones (at least most of the time).
“Chaos Space Marine” opens with something like a traditional fiddle tune, pausing for flourishes by individual players: trills, plinks, hoots, quick runs. Wood sings, dramatically but obliquely, about war, sailing, “becoming a worm” and coming home. The band could be a pit orchestra for a surreal operetta, dropping into a stately half time for a finale that concludes with Wood declaiming, “Billie Eilish style/Concorde will fly/Ignore the hole I’ve dug again.”
Those verbal nuggets recur, equally enigmatically, in other songs on the album. An abject love song, “Haldern,” begins with “Ignore the hole I’ve dug again” and goes on, through rippling Minimalist patterns, a wrenching crescendo and a final, brittle thinning out, to praise “the only one I’ve known/Who broke the world so quietly.” There’s a waltz called “Concorde” that addresses someone named Concorde as a lifelong companion, lover or apparition. And the album’s closer, “Basketball Shoes,” open with Wood singing, “Concorde flies in my room/Tears the house to shreds.”
Stretching past 12 minutes, “Basketball Shoes” moves through elegy, march, a quasi-jig, near-stillness, giant tolling unisons and a finale that’s equal parts triumph and despair; it also tucks in the musical motif that started the album in “Intro.” Throughout “Ants From Up Here,” and through the course of every song, Black Country, New Road tests and reinvents itself, creating music that sounds both intricately plotted and precarious. Just how precarious wasn’t clear until Wood left the band.
Black Country, New Road
“Ants From Up There”
(Ninja Tune)
@Lellos_
You walk up on the raised edge
Hands out for balance
Slip and you almost grab mine, but you find your feet
And I never wanted so much someone to fall
It's just been a weekend
But in my mind we summer in France
With our genius daughters now
And you teach me to play the piano
You call
I'll be there
What's more?
I'm scared of
The phone
Don't ring it
Please know
That I'm just trying to find
Some way to keep me in your mind
And later on
Everyone will say "it was cool"
"She had Billie Eilish style"
"Moving to Berlin for a little while"
"Tryna find something to hold on to"
"Never texts me nothing
But she wants to tell me
She's not that hard to find"
And "message me if you change your mind"
Darling, I'll keep fine
And if we're on a burning starship
The escape pods filled with your friends, your childhood film photos
There's no room for me to go
Oh, I'd wait there, float with the wreckage
Fashion a long sword
Traverse the Milky Way
Tryna get home to you
And you bring some piece of the stars
You call
I'll be there
What's more?
I'm scared of
The phone
Don't ring it
Please know
That I'm just trying to find
Some way to keep me in your mind
And later on
Everyone will say "it was cool"
"She had Billie Eilish style"
"Moving to Berlin for a little while"
"Tryna find something to hold on to"
"Never texts me nothing
But she wants to tell me
She's not that hard to find"
And "message me if you change your mind"
Darling, I'll keep fine
Everyone will say "it was cool"
Aw, "She had Billie Eilish style"
"Moving to Berlin for a little while"
"Tryna find something to hold on to"
"Never texts me nothing
But she wants to tell me
She's not that hard to find"
And "message me if you change your mind"
Darling, I'll keep fine
@morganveitch1422
This, to me, perfectly describes being in love with someone who either doesn't love you back or doesn't care
@alrightmanedison5941
I agree. One of my favorites off the album
@mirtilo
and has billie eilish style
@jzzzzm
@@mirtilo lmao
@matthewmcculloch9320
Yep. Feeling it right now.
@luigymrobles
Man it hurts so much, but in a comforting way if that makes any kind of sense
@ahri3887
The time signature changes in this song are so fucking smooth
@user-xu4xw6jm7d
Its mostly just 12/8 and 4/4
@joaoassumpcao3347
@@user-xu4xw6jm7d 6/8 * and there's a lot of rhythm fuckery in this song (and record), like the beginning of Basketball Shoes that's in 4/4 but has this weird syncopated feeling to it. The weird change from 6/8 to 4/4 is a nice touch too
@user-xu4xw6jm7d
@@joaoassumpcao3347 salve meu mano tambem sou brasileiro