girl named susan - 3/15/26
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kalvingjgirl named susan
by Kalvin Johnson
March 15, 2026
3/15/26 4:43am Zushi, Japan
"I had this girlfriend, I lived in Berkley and she lived on the far side of San Francisco, and her mother came out to live with her from New York. Her mother was really, really, really Catholic. So she could never stay at my house, we had to take her home every night.
It was a long drive, all the way from the hills of Berkley, down to the freeway, and up the bridge and across from the bay into San Francisco. She lived on the far fucking side of the city. Every time I drove her back and forth, I'd let her go. On top of everything else, I had to let her go, I could never stay, she could never stay.
I don't know, one day I just had this, and I get this feeling a lot, I just wrote a bunch of songs about it. Just knew it wasn't going to last much longer. Not that I wasn't in love with her, this was after her mother got the fuck out of town.
But I was thinking a lot about those drives, because I started thinking one day it just was going to be over soon. I don't know, for me sometimes it doesn't matter how good it is, it's just going to be over soon. So I wrote this song, I don't know why I called it what I did cuz I didn't live anywhere near any place named this.
But it's a song about something that matters, and you just know it's going to go. It's just about someone named Susan, I don't know where she is now, but it's called Sullivan Street."
kj
by Kalvin Johnson
March 15, 2026
3/15/26 4:43am Zushi, Japan
"I had this girlfriend, I lived in Berkley and she lived on the far side of San Francisco, and her mother came out to live with her from New York. Her mother was really, really, really Catholic. So she could never stay at my house, we had to take her home every night.
It was a long drive, all the way from the hills of Berkley, down to the freeway, and up the bridge and across from the bay into San Francisco. She lived on the far fucking side of the city. Every time I drove her back and forth, I'd let her go. On top of everything else, I had to let her go, I could never stay, she could never stay.
I don't know, one day I just had this, and I get this feeling a lot, I just wrote a bunch of songs about it. Just knew it wasn't going to last much longer. Not that I wasn't in love with her, this was after her mother got the fuck out of town.
But I was thinking a lot about those drives, because I started thinking one day it just was going to be over soon. I don't know, for me sometimes it doesn't matter how good it is, it's just going to be over soon. So I wrote this song, I don't know why I called it what I did cuz I didn't live anywhere near any place named this.
But it's a song about something that matters, and you just know it's going to go. It's just about someone named Susan, I don't know where she is now, but it's called Sullivan Street."
kj
