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Japanese Breakfast - Savage Good Boy
[Intro]
I want to be your man
I want to be your s-
[Verse 1]
I want to be your man
I want to be your savage good boy
I want to take care of you
[Verse 2]
When everybody's gone
Want you to be the one that I come home to
The one that's up waiting
[Chorus]
I want to make the money 'til there's no more to be made
And we will be so wealthy, I'm absolved from questioning
That all my bad behavior was just a necessary strain
They're the stakes in the race to win
[Verse 3]
I've got a five year plan
I've got a pension and six condos
A billion-dollar bunker for two
[Verse 4]
And when the city's underwater
I will wine and dine you in the hollows
On a surplus of freeze-dried food
[Chorus]
I want to make the money 'til there's no more to be made
And as the last ones standing, we'll be tasked to repopulate
And as you rear our children, know it's the necessary strain
They're the stakes in a race to live
Michelle Zauner said "“Savage Good Boy" came from a headline I read about billionaires buying bunkers. I was interested in examining that specific type of villainy, and I found myself adopting the perspective of a rich man coaxing a young woman to come live with him underground, attempting to rationalize his almost impossible share of greed and miserliness. ” Writing from the perspective of a breadwinner seems to be a recurrent theme in Zauner’s work. In her songs ‘Bread’ and ‘Day 12’, she addressed other storylines where a man is trying to provide for a woman. "'This one was co-produced by Alex G, who is one of my favourite musicians of all time, and was inspired by a headline I’d read about billionaires buying bunkers. I wanted to write it from the perspective of a billionaire who’d bought one, and who was coaxing a woman to come live with him as the world burned around them. I wanted to capture what that level of self-validation looks like—that rationalisation of hoarding wealth.'" - via Apple Music
