Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell
All The Good Girls Go To Hell
"All the Good Girls Go to Hell" is a song that was made by Billie Eilish.
This song could be found in her album "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?".
Lyrics
[Intro]
My Lucifer is lonely
[Verse 1]
Standing there, killing time
Can't commit to anything but a crime
Peter's on vacation, an open invitation
Animals, evidence
Pearly Gates look more like a picket fence
Once you get inside 'em
Got friends but can't invite them
[Pre-Chorus]
Hills burn in California
My turn to ignore ya
Don't say I didn't warn ya
[Chorus]
All the good girls go to Hell
'Cause even God herself has enemies
And once the water starts to rise
And Heaven's out of sight
She'll want the Devil on her team
[Post-Chorus]
My Lucifer is lonely
[Verse 2]
Look at you needing me
You know I'm not your friend without some greenery
Walk in wearin' fetters
Peter should know better
Your cover up is caving in
Man is such a fool, why are we saving him?
Poisoning themselves now
Begging for our help, wow
[Pre-Chorus]
Hills burn in California
My turn to ignore ya
Don't say I didn't warn ya
[Chorus]
All the good girls go to Hell (All the good girls go to Hell)
'Cause even God herself (God herself) has enemies
And once the water starts to rise (Water starts to rise)
And Heaven's out of sight
She'll want the Devil on her team
[Post-Chorus]
My Lucifer is lonely
There's nothing left to save now
My god is gonna owe me
There's nothing left to save now
[Outro]
Haha!
I cannot do the snowflake
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Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell (Lyrics)
Lyrics
All the good girls go to hell
Audio
Song in Just Dance 2021
Trivia
- In the song when, billy says "My Lucifer is lonely", "Lucifer" is another name for the devil. In Christianity, Lucifer was an angel that was condemned to hell from heaven because he rebelled against God.
- Lucifer is used in a fictional plot device where he is sometimes referred to as the “devil on your shoulder.” The idea is that you have an angel and a devil on each of your shoulders: the angel represents morality, and the devil represents temptation and instinct. This concept is often used to depict inner conflict, and associated with Freud’s concept of id and ego.
- Ultimately, Billie affirms she doesn’t have an angel on her shoulder, and the devil is acting alone to control her.
- Lucifer is used in a fictional plot device where he is sometimes referred to as the “devil on your shoulder.” The idea is that you have an angel and a devil on each of your shoulders: the angel represents morality, and the devil represents temptation and instinct. This concept is often used to depict inner conflict, and associated with Freud’s concept of id and ego.
- The line "Peter's on vacation, an open invitation" is a reference to Saint Peter, who is said to guard the entrance to Heaven. Those denied entrance descend to Hell, but if Peter’s on vacation, there’s nothing stopping anyone, and everyone, from entering Heaven.
- The line "Pearly Gates look more like a picket fence" Pearly Gates here refers to the gates of Heaven. This term comes from Revelation 21:21: "The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass."
- Billie suggests that Heaven does not look so appealing, comparing it to a picket fence, which is associated with domestic boundaries in the typical middle-class American household.
- As she already referred to the “open invitation” into heaven earlier in the verse, it is reasonable to assume that she is saying the gates are a picket fence – as in easy to cross. They are commonly known to be easily climbed over. The main purpose of the picket fence metaphor is to emphasize how easy it seems to get in.
- Billie suggests that Heaven does not look so appealing, comparing it to a picket fence, which is associated with domestic boundaries in the typical middle-class American household.
- About the pre-chorus, During an interview for Rolling Stone, Eilish spoke of the following lyric, saying: "There’s a line on there about hills burning in California. That’s a natural thing to have now — a huge part of L.A. on fire and there’s nothing you can do. The skies are all gray and orange, and that’s natural. There’s school shootings all the time and that’s normal. That’s f++++d! This is our normal world and it’s not weird to us, because it’s what we’ve always had. It’s like, things are so f++++d, I’m just gonna make art about it."
- The line "Hills burn in California" refers to the Forest fires are, unfortunately, swiftly becoming the norm on the west coast. In 2018 especially, California suffered extreme wildfires— with a total of 8,527 fires destroying an area of 1,893,913 acres, killing over 100 people.
- A national disaster was declared in Northern California on August 4th, 2018, due to the intensity of the fires.
- The lines "My turn to ignore ya; Don't say I didn't warn ya" As stated before, this song is about climate change. Here and in the previous line, the lyrics are talking about the California Wildfires as a byproduct of climate change.
- “My turn to ignore ya” suggests that climate change has been an issue that has been massively ignored. The pre-chorus seems to be from the perspective of God who is now ignoring mankind.
- “Don’t say I didn’t warn ya” suggests that despite the research that has been done on this subject, not much has been done to fix it over the years.
- “My turn to ignore ya” suggests that climate change has been an issue that has been massively ignored. The pre-chorus seems to be from the perspective of God who is now ignoring mankind.
- The chorus is where Billie spins the idea of good and evil while playing with Biblical imagery of judgment and eternal damnation and salvation. Traditionally, those that find salvation through Jesus Christ are rewarded with eternal life in heaven through Christianity. However, Billie praises the kind of people who don’t, and who end up in Hell instead. From her perspective, while maybe not judged to be morally good, they are indeed the best kind of people.
- In this opposite heaven-hell dichotomy, Billie also flips the patriarchal, righteous view of God by portraying God as a woman, an idea that has inundated contemporary culture as of this song’s release. Months prior, fellow pop star Ariana Grande released her smash hit, “God is a woman,” to much critical backlash and praise.
- The second verse depicts a dialogue between God and the Devil. Now that Heaven is out of sight, God converses with the Devil in an attempt to save mankind, despite their self-destructive tendencies.
- “Fetters” (which is mentioned in the song) is another term for shackles – metal clamps used to restrain prisoners by the legs. They allow only restricted movement, preventing significant strides from whoever is held.
- Biblical imagery is omnipresent throughout “all the good girls go to hell.” Fetters are even mentioned in the Bible metaphorically as a symbol of inner turmoil, such as in Mark 5:4: "Because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him."
- “Fetters” is also a homonym of “feathers”. By wearing feathers, walking to the gates of heaven, one is using angel wings to disguise oneself as “good”, so that they would be accepted into heaven. This imagery can also be seen in the next two lines where Billie explains that their “cover up” is found out.
- Biblical imagery is omnipresent throughout “all the good girls go to hell.” Fetters are even mentioned in the Bible metaphorically as a symbol of inner turmoil, such as in Mark 5:4: "Because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him."
- In the lines "Peter should know better; Your cover up is caving in", According to some religious writings, Saint Peter is the keeper of the gates of Heaven and decides whether you should be allowed into heaven or be sent down to Hell. In this situation, Peter may not suspect the underlying sins of the person attempting to get into heaven.
- In this verse, Billie refers to humanity as a whole, saying that humans (including those trying to get into heaven) are corrupt and will never truly change their ways. These lyrics paint a picture of humans trying to put on an innocent facade to get into heaven, despite having a guilty conscience on the inside.
- The line "Man is such a fool, why are we saving him?" is similar to the statement in the pre-chorus, this line relates to climate change and in particular humanity’s response to it. In an interview with Sagid Carter, Billie explains further: "Mankind! It’s mankind that’s the f--king fool. Why are we working so hard to save mankind when we should really be out here like saving the planet, saving the world, saving the animals? We are literally the flu [of the world]. We’re the flu and the f--king this beautiful that we’re like ruining. I mean like, obviously that song is however you want it to be about, you know, but a lot of it’s about global warming and, you know, the world’s being so ruined by us, you know, it’s literally us."
- Billie has been known to take measures herself to protect the environment and the animals. For example, she has been seen on multiple occasions using a metal straw as plastic straws have been proven to cause pollution and wreak havoc on marine life. Additionally, she does not eat meat and encourages her fans to think more deeply about their actions that might impact the environment. In an interview with AMP Radio, Billie explained: "There’s some things from my job I can’t really do. I’d love not to waste resources, like planes and cars and stuff, but there’s certain things you can do instead … there’s numbers you can text to protest and just speak up, you know."
- The lines "Poisoning themselves now; Begging for our help, wow" could be a statement against excessive drinking and substance use. Christianity sees the use of alcohol or drugs as sinful, as illustrated in Ephesians 5:18, making it harder for someone to get into Heaven after death. "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit."
- This could also be referring to climate change and environmental disasters, like the catastrophic California wildfires Billie alludes to in the pre-chorus. She also touches upon climate change in general in the chorus.
- Billie Eilish explained the outro in an interview: "The ending, it’s me saying, “I cannot do the snowflake,” and I don’t know if anyone would even pretend to know what that means, ‘cause no one should know what that means. … I was crocheting a snowflake, and I forgot how, and I was in the middle of a take, and I stopped, and I went, “I cannot do the snowflake!” It was around Christmas time when we recorded that, so I was making a snowflake for a friend of mine."