Vivian Girls formed in 2007, made up of guitarist/vocalist Cassie Ramone (Grzymkowski), bassist/vocalist Kickball Katy (Goodman), and drummer/vocalist Frankie Rose. The group recorded a hasty demo and played in New York often. Their gritty-yet-melodic sound caught on quickly, and within months of forming, Vivian Girls were opening big gigs for national acts like Sonic Youth and headlining club shows in Brooklyn. Throughout 2008 they released a handful of 7" singles on a passel of small labels, including "Wild Eyes" (Plays with Dolls Records), "Orphanage" (Woodsist Records), and "I Can't Stay" (In the Red Records). Rose left the band in July of 2008, but not before recording the material that would make up the group's first album. That self-titled debut full-length was released on Mauled by Tigers in September of the same year and the entire vinyl pressing of 500 copies sold out in ten days. In the Red quickly re-released the album to wider distribution and the trio (now joined by new drummer Ali Koehler), spent the year touring and gaining fans the world over.
The group's quickly recorded follow-up album, Everything Goes Wrong, was released in late summer of 2009. After switching out drummers in the summer of 2010 (Koehler joined Best Coast and was replaced by Coasting's drummer Fiona Campbell) and taking a break for other projects (Ramone formed Babies with Woods' bass player Kevin Morby, Goodman formed La Sera with Brady Hall), the Vivian Girls hit the studio in late 2010 to record their third album. Share the Joy was released in April 2011 on their new label Polyvinyl.
The band spilt in 2014, and the members focused on their individual projects. They remained friends, though, and in 2018, Ramone, Goodman, and Koehler met up in secret to begin recording a new album with producer Rob Barbato. The result was 2019's Memory, which was released by Polyvinyl in September.
There are other bands with the same name:
2. Indie Rock band from Melbourne, Australia, active in the early 2000's.
3. Band from St. Louis, MO, active since the mid 90's.
Never See Me Again
Vivian Girls Lyrics
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And after all this time to get you out of my head
Why did you think you'd miss me again?
It took me so long to finally understand that you can't be around
But now you're here again, this isn't what we planned
Why did you think you'd miss me again?
It felt okay. But now you're here again to take my breath away.
I had a really hard time getting out of bed thinking bout all the things you said
And after all this time to get you out of my head
Why did you think you'd miss me again?
Why did you come here again?
The Vivian Girls' song "Never See Me Again" is a heart-wrenching tale of a broken relationship haunted by the past. The opening verse sees the singer struggling to walk down the street without the person whom she once loved. The fact that he won't be walking next to her anymore is too much to handle, and she finds it hard to move past the memories they once shared together. The song delves into the theme of grappling with the aftermath of a breakup and tries to move on from it.
As the song progresses, it becomes clear that the singer has gone through a lot of pain and heartache to get over the person she's singing about. She has to work hard to forget their memories and push herself to move on. However, it seems as though her former lover is trying (or has tried) to come back into her life, and she's now trying to grapple with that. The confusion and hurt are palpable in the lyrics. She questions, "Why did you think you'd miss me again?" It's almost as if she doesn't want to open old wounds and doesn't want to revisit the past.
The closing verse sees the singer struggling to get out of bed, thinking about all the things that her lover had said to her. She questions why her lover has come back, almost as if she doesn't want to deal with the hurt again. The song encapsulates the feeling of not wanting to repeat the past and moving on but still being in love with the person who once hurt you.
Line by Line Meaning
I had a really hard time walking down the street knowing you wouldn't walk next to me
It was difficult for me to accept the fact that you wouldn't be by my side on the street.
And after all this time to get you out of my head
Even after so much time has passed, I wasn't able to forget about you.
Why did you think you'd miss me again?
What made you believe that you would miss me again?
It took me so long to finally understand that you can't be around
I took a while to realize that we cannot be together.
But now you're here again, this isn't what we planned
You have shown up again, but this is not how things were supposed to be.
Spent so much time without you since you went away
I have spent a lot of time without you since the time you left.
It felt okay. But now you're here again to take my breath away.
Things were going well without you, but your return has made it hard for me again.
I had a really hard time getting out of bed thinking bout all the things you said
Your words have been on my mind, making it difficult for me to wake up.
Why did you think you'd miss me again?
I can't seem to understand your reasons for thinking that you would miss me yet again.
Why did you come here again?
I want to know why you decided to come back again?
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Frankie Madeline Rose, Kathryn Sarah Goodman, Monica Cassia Grzymkowski
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Little lump Shaft
What a beautiful and badass song. Very honest
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Lou Skunt
what a load blower! :D
eddiedunford
such a sad song