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The Beauty of it All

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1.
Like a Wave 01:41
i know you think that i am lazy when the fact is i am broken i know you think that i am lost when the fact is that i’ve been stolen i know you think that i’m just sad but i’ve given up on being happy i know you think i’ll come around but whatever’s left of me is not me oh i just take it day by day day by day i’m rolling on
2.
This Forever 03:34
i’m gonna make a list of things i shouldn’t do like egg some bentleys or get a face tattoo go to new york and write a screen play or better yet to sell my soul and move to LA dye my hair blue and start an oyster cult start thinking everything i’ve done is always my fault google “self defense” and “self destruction” in fact i bet it’s probably best to just stop googling plant a cactus in my memory start plotting anything by which my friends remember me drink a fifth or maybe two and tell everyone “i love you but i hate you too” i could go on but i can’t go on like this forever i’m gonna make a list of things that i should probably do and maybe once i find the time think i might do them too like get a real job and some real friends or better yet to find some courage and some common sense read a book or maybe 100 stop thinking everything is everything or nothing keep a journal, love my own skin stop wishing for more wishes and take what’s given take up a hobby like, do more hiking stop trying to figure out if life’s worth liking go to new york and see some old art let the beauty of it all rip me all apart
3.
you’ll find it on the mantelpiece upstairs underneath the mirror of cold stares from the lonely kid who’s looking back at you angry ‘cause you don’t know what to do better stick together, like that duct tape to your pipe stick together like the moths stick to the light better stick together & i’ll hang out here with you enjoy the weather, find the perfect view if you take them all you’ll probably get real high but there’s also that small chance that you might die and although you know you wanna run away you also hope to find a better place so we’ll go together, start looking everywhere we’ll look forever, until we just don’t care we’ll stick together & i’ll hang out here with you enjoy the weather, take in the view
4.
On Mars 02:15
body aches and i’m tired of fighting sense of duty like a flash of lightning starting over in a t-shirt and blue jeans and you said that you tried to love me late last summer at my birthday party but i just kept bursting at the seams all the pain was just flowing out of me said picture yourself on mars just playing cards and hanging out and you are just where you are with no concern for what you’re without wanna tear it all down this instant light a fire all gold and brilliant i’d do anything it takes to start to change wanna yell that i’m fucking sorry but it’s now such a plain part of me there’s no need to but i’ll say it anyway don’t want nothing at the end of a rough day ‘cept maybe my dog and a place to lay
5.
Mountain Dew 02:25
it’s really been a long time lots of earbuds and headlights river of qualms about a mile wide— that’s me—and you-- here i am, where are you? so we wandered down a busy street and you said that you’d been fumbling over mountain dew or apple juice let’s jump in, count of three try ‘em all if you please and that was the cigarette that was the cigarette that was the cigarette i was smoking when i quit ah, when you always want to cry ah, when you always have to try there must be something i can do
6.
bet you taste like starlight ‘cause your eyes are midnight open the door to my life what you find you might like you could take me on, yeah it drags on and on and life is not a song no, life is not a song but you breathe like freedom and i want to steal some instead get plastered start inching backwards i like you too much to hang around too long it gets me down too much to leave when you’re around, yeah you could take me on, yeah it drags on and on and life, it's not a song, no life, it's not a song life is not a song, no but i’ll write you a quick one (I want you, I want you) i want you to stay
7.
Birds 01:20
you used to be like so with me yeah i miss you man two birds, one string two knots, two feet yeah i miss you man
8.
Shoulda 01:02
forget old me i’m out with sympathy she’s a fragile thing why wasn’t it so easy? i should have been on it it could have been easy it would have been if i love the trees i love the leaves that fall and i love the roots branches that reach so tall
9.
Afraid 01:47
i want to be careless swing like a kid on a swing i want to live forever to see what forever might bring i wanna hide in the mountains swim on the shores of a beach i want to take you along to all of these places with me i don't want to be lonely i want to live only with joy to take the air that surrounds me and transform it all into noise i don't want to be angry but drunk on the promise of love i know that it's all and i guess if it's all it's enough yeah i'm afraid but i do i think that i do want to more than you could ever know
10.
if i carved your face into a mountainside i cried out your name when i’m alone at night outlined my mistakes in a neon sign would you be my friend again? if i took your tears to a wishing well re-lived all those years i couldn’t help myself if i made you dance to my broken heart would you be my friend again? if i walked back home with my bloody knees and tried to explain all my grass-stained jeans i’d beg, borrow, steal for a second chance if you’d be my friend again ‘cause i spend too much time making plans and building rockets to fly the speed of light and freeze it all for just one instant where you are by my side and there’s no time like the present i made my great escape a thousand times, my final exit

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released October 27, 2015


from freesound.org, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution License
aleinxxx—Weather Report IRL Shannon (1)
nanakisan—Evil Laugh 9 (1)
artykris—Guitar Feedback Miroslawski Net (1, 2)
hyderpotter—BT Ans Machine (3)
j4p4n—Japanese Kids Playing Outside (3)

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