The Good Fight Lyrics<\/i><\/b>
\nBy: Jimmy Buffett, J.D. Souther
\n1980 – Coconut Telegraph<\/i>
\nTo Muhammed Ali for twenty years of excitement and entertainment<\/i><\/p>\n
They talk about their women too much
\nThe women got ’em so confused
\nThey don’t talk about their lives as such
\nMy life is all I got to lose<\/p>\n
You take it with a grain of salt
\nAnd laugh at the complexities
\nThey’re good at pickin’ all the faults
\nI keep laughin’ so they don’t pick me<\/p>\n
Chorus:
\nJesus if I had to quit tonight
\nI’d never know if I was wrong or right
\nBut that’s just what you get
\nYou got to go the distance
\nIf you want to fight a good fight
\nGood fight
\nKeep it up and keep a good fight
\nGood Fight<\/p>\n
The telephone begins to ring
\nThat could only be one call
\nI might as well be on the moon
\nStandin’ in the shower stall<\/p>\n
Can’t believe she picked it up
\nShe didn’t know the rules somehow
\nThen I hear her say hello (hello)
\nPanic in the grey room now<\/p>\n
Chorus:
\nJesus if I had to quit tonight
\nShe’d kill me whether I was wrong or right
\nThat’s just what you get
\nYou got to go the distance
\nIf you want to fight a good fight
\nGood fight
\nKeep it up and keep a good fight
\nGood fight<\/p>\n
You never know until you try
\nIt’s hard to see the side you’re on
\nSome people say I’m halfway here
\nSome people say I’m halfway gone<\/p>\n
Chorus:
\nJesus if I had to quit tonight
\nI’d never know if I was wrong or right
\nBut that’s just what you get
\nYou got to go the distance
\nIf you want to fight a good fight
\nGood fight
\nKeep it up and keep a good fight
\nGood fight<\/p>\n
All I want is just a good fight
\nGood fight
\nYes it’s got to be a good fight
\nGood fight<\/p>\n
The line, “I keep laughin’ so they don’t pick me” is really central to my life. And damn if the women ain’t got me so confused.<\/p>\n
I empathize, perhaps too much, with Jimmy’s dilemma in the second verse. But the thing that really gets me is that sometimes, no matter how certain you are that the other person knows the rules of engagement, somehow, some way, they show that they don’t. And you end up completely powerless to stop something from going into motion.<\/p>\n
“Might as well be on the moon” is exactly how you feel.<\/p>\n
When I was in Atlanta visiting Erien, the lyric “Panic in the grey room now” suddenly made sense. To me, it’s talking about the sudden thought process of being caught at something you shouldn’t have been caught at: your mind races, your body starts to sweat, and you go into overdrive trying to figure it out. Your brain, of course, is the “grey room”. And here I’d always assumed the shower stall was grey.<\/p>\n
In the long run, I feel this way about a lot of my relationships with women: sometimes rules I think are obvious are unknown, sometimes I laugh so that they don’t pick me, and damnit if there’s not always panic in the grey room<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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