Go Through It

The first time I heard Go Through It, I was struck by that sense of urgency right from the first chord. It’s not a song that drags or waits around: it kicks off with a sharp rhythm, almost as if the band were in a hurry to get somewhere. Debbie Harry sings with a voice that doesn’t stop, as if every word were another step in a race against something she never quite names. The track lasts just over two minutes, but in that time it conveys more than just a melody: it’s as if the sound itself is trying to break through the cracks of whatever the lyrics don’t quite say.

The song came together at a strange moment for Blondie. In 1980, the band had already moved past the rawer punk and new wave sounds of their early records, but hadn’t yet ventured into the more pop-oriented exploration of Autoamerican. Go Through It emerged as a bridge between those two phases: Debbie Harry and Chris Stein wrote it after the band appeared in the film Roadie that same year. It wasn’t meant to be a single, but rather a piece that fit into the album like a breath between more ambitious tracks. More than forty years later, in 2022, the band dug up a demo version of the song for an archival project, rebranding it as I Love You Honey, Give Me A Beer (Go Through It) and releasing it as a single. Who would’ve thought: a song that seemed forgotten found its way back into circulation, now with a title that plays with irony and nostalgia.