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never trust anyone. never have any fun. never stay up late. never wake up and feel alive. are we all dead inside? no, we’re very much alive. but we will never love again.
loveless and alive, but you are dead inside.
and I can’t meet your eyes.
sometime in september I went back to school and saw you,
sometime in october I pulled back again and withdrew.
let us say our goodbyes, and in the morning we will rise.
but I still won’t meet your eyes
sometime in september I went back to school and saw you,
sometime in october I pulled back again and withdrew.
let us say our goodbyes.
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A Baseball Nobody
02:51
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i guess I’ll be a baseball nobody, cause I don’t own a glove
not allowed to play at recess, not allowed to play with sticks and bugs
i guess I’ll be a football nobody, cause I don’t own the guts
not allowed to play at recess, not allowed to play at lunch
and all the wrongs I did can be traced back to when I was a kid
and all the faults I have, they’re probably because that second grade teacher hated me
she would overreact because I couldn’t subtract, no I couldn’t subtract
seven years old, and I jacked her car, drove it into her house and she died on impact
if I was a paper airplane,
i would fly across the whole goddamn classroom
i’d have secrets written on my wings
if I was the president
we’d get citizenship for frogs and raccoons
because animals are people too
and all the wrongs I did can be traced back to when I was a kid
and all the faults I have, they’re probably because that second grade teacher hated me
she would overreact because I couldn’t subtract, no i couldn't subtract
and I was seven years old and I jacked her car, drove it into her house and she died on impact
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Punk-Ass Yankees
01:25
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i moved up to Vermont, because it was colder than Pennsylvania,
but I grew sick of all the snow, and I grew sick of all the icy roads.
my car, it was swerving,
i got in a car crash.
and in the hospital,
i said my last words.
i moved to Oklahoma, I’ve never been to that place before.
but I grew sick of all the cows, and I grew sick of high school football.
my team, we were winning,
but there was a fumble.
when I ran for the ball,
i broke both my legs.
i moved up to New York, because it was louder than Oklahoma.
but I grew sick of all the pigs, and I grew sick of the Punk-Ass Yankees.
and my flat, it was robbed.
they stole my TV.
so I got out my gun,
and they said their last words.
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Gallon Smashing
04:22
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do you, do you remember when we set out to kill our friends?countless funerals we’d attend, countless apologies we’d extend. my mother, she always said, “you can’t miss what you never had”. and never mix rum with mescaline. days later, where have I been?
i’m so sorry, he was my friend, but people like us, we go to heaven.
i’m sure he went to hell.
i’m so goddamned sorry you lost your friend, but people like us, we go to heaven.
but if there was such a place, they would never let him in.
i’m so sorry he met his end, with a butter knife from the cabinet.
i’m so goddamned sorry he met his end, he broke his neck in an accident.
he had it coming to him.
i was never happy when I was sober.
but my friends were there, and the high was worth it (Friends!).
waves of euphoria would bubble over.
after three in the morning I would stumble upstairs to bed.
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