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“Good Friday” is a song that explores indulgences that WHY? frontman Yoni Wolf expresses shame in, including a taboo sex life, drug usage, depression, and a relationship with a former lover. Despite the uncomfortable lyrical content recited in monotone, the acoustic plucking and background instrumentation is quite laid back.

The song’s title refers to a line in the song in which Yoni describes a traumatic night when he saw his ex at the front row of a show he played on Good Friday in 2006.

In an interview with Self-Titled Mag, the interviewer described “Good Friday” as an awkward song to listen to, to which Yoni replied,

Yeah, I guess it’s a dark record. A little more resigned to the hopelessness of what’s going on. But with that being said, it doesn’t take itself as seriously as Elephant Eyelash […] I played the way I could say things without sounding like a sad sack.

Later in an interview with Noisey, Yoni would look back at writing the song and had this to say:

If I think back to when I was writing a song like “Good Friday” from Alopecia in 2008, it was a terrible time. Am I going to go night after night and reconjure that in my life? I don’t want to. I am and I do. But can I phase into some stuff that is actually going to bring positivity? Hopefully.

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October 28, 2008
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