“Good Nights Gone” by The Paper Kites

“Good Nights Gone” is a song of romantic heartbreak, and a pretty sad one at that. It is the third verse especially that has the potential to hit a listener in the feels, as it goes about illustrating, in more exquisite detail than most other tracks we’ve come across of this nature, how the love between the vocalist and addressee has devolved. 

Indeed, Sam is actually “pray(ing) for desire”, i.e. to once again feel the spark that made this romance a thing to begin with. But alas, “the fire [is] no more”.

But more pointedly as far as the thesis sentiment is involved, it’s as if he doesn’t understand what caused this phenomenon, i.e. he and his sweetheart falling out of love. Or once again going back to the third verse, the vocalist questions “where have the good nights gone?” 

So as it currently stands, he’s stuck in the unenviable predicament of being in a romance into the foreseeable future whereas neither party involved seem to be even remotely enthused.

“I don’t know you like I used to know you now
You don’t say it like you used to say it now
So where do I go when your good love fades away?”

Quick Facts

“Good Nights Gone” was released on 1 September 2023 as part of The Paper Kites’ LP “At the Roadhouse”. However, frontman Sam Bentley has pointed out that its creation dates back “On the Corner Where You Live”, one of the albums the band dropped back in 2018.

The selfsame Sam Bentley wrote this song, and he also produced it with Matt Redlich.

This track was made public through Sony Music Australia (with The Paper Kites being an Australian band) and Wonderlick Entertainment, which is also stationed down under.