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Songs For Best Friends

by Almost People

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1.
The sounds combining will serve as a silver lining And those nights kept close to you will slowly but surely save your life I’m bored with booze and cigarettes but I recall some days when that was not the case Sending smoke signals from West Village and singing songs about the good old days Yeah I remember the nights of not remembering shit with my best friends And those nights kept close to you will slowly but surely save your life And the sounds combining will serve as a silver lining I’m bored with booze and cigarettes but I recall some days when that was not the case Sending smoke signals from West Village and singing songs about the good old days Yeah I remember the nights of not remembering shit with my best friends
2.
Day One 02:49
When everyday is New Year’s Eve and every night is Halloween and everything in between is lost The shaky hands and the part time job are getting older faster than you thought And you’re losing a staring contest with a clock Is it a matter of waiting And is there something worth saving Is it a matter of time until your biggest secret’s out Your brain casing is misshapen, your chemicals are unbalanced But you’re lucky enough to notice that right now The doctors and your friends agree, your behavior has changed recently You’re scared to be something that never was Is it a matter of waiting And is there something worth saving Is it a matter of time until your biggest secret’s out I suppose that it’s normal to feel like you’ve lost control When you no longer trust yourself anymore
3.
Nobody died but some of us came close Was it a matter of time or luck or maybe both? Nobody died but some of us came close There’s a holy mess and a ship that’s sinking and a captain that has lost all feeling And the plastic cups are piling up somewhere There’s songs for brothers who still have ties to their real mothers and plans for their lives There’s no men or women or children left behind Oh and you never really know who you are gonna meet There’s a Heaven in Hell and it’s called Rockaway Beach Nobody died but some of us came close Was it a matter of time or luck or maybe both? Nobody died but some of us came close When we made war by the city limits the waiting list began to hit us And it only took a minute or two to fall in love But spent the next six months avoiding everyone There’s songs for sisters who still have ties to their real mothers and plans for their lives There’s no men or women or children left behind Oh and you never really know who you are gonna meet There’s a Heaven in Hell and it’s called Rockaway Beach Nobody died but some of us came close Was it a matter of time or luck or maybe both? Nobody died but some of us came close
4.
And I'm on my 11th beer and no I didn't go out And know I know I'm not proud And know I know I'll never think I'll be And if I hit reset on everything I'll be waiting once again for what could be nothing Although I'm hiding from something And if I hit reset on everything I'll be waiting once again for what could be nothing For what could be the end of all, the end of all I have And all the things I thought that I'd always wish I'd have My nights are long term and my days are shorter I don't know where to fucking begin I don't know where to fucking begin And I'm on my 11th beer and no I didn't go out And no I know I'm not proud And no I know I'll never think I'll be And if I hit reset on everything I'll be waiting once again for what could be nothing For what could be the end of all, the end of all I have And all the things I thought that I'd always wish I'd have My nights are long term and my days are shorter I don't know where to fucking begin I don't know where to fucking begin And I'm lost and out of my mind And for every moment that passes, I take a step towards the abyss And I'm lost and out of my mind The highways don't participate in anything I anticipate anymore
5.
As every chapter ends another chapter starts And for every friend you’ve forgotten take a step into the dark The closer that you get to the white light up ahead It will start to all come back and it will feel real once again Saturdays spent on the open road in the middle of the night No matter where you’re going now, you’ll start to feel alive As another chapter ends another chapter starts For every friend you’ve forgotten take a step into the dark And it wasn’t written in stone There’s no telephone to wait by Just train tracks to walk along Until the sun and air and moon are gone Some say that it doesn’t take impossible strength to see That the open road might never bring you back to me Breath in, breath out, drown in all doubt The trees and all the vines will one day overgrow The cities that we knew and the places we called home And somewhere in the ashes will be a three by five Picture of you and me from the best days of our lives As every chapter ends another chapter starts And for every friend you’ve forgotten take a step into the dark The look on your face will be worth every mile From north and south and east and west, in acceptance and denial
6.
The word on the street is that this is war And you’re never gonna know what you’re looking for I want your love So I’ll tell you all the things that I think you wanna hear I want your love And none of this will matter in six months anyway When you try to look back cus nothing stays the same I want your love So I’ll change who I am and act just like you I want your love This is the year of the ghost from lonely coast to lonely coast This is the year that we’re gonna face our fears These are the best days that you’ll ever have So don’t look down and don’t look back These are the best days that you’ll ever have again So trust me friend On the side of the road missing what I had I drove past your house until I ran out of gas I want your love So I’ll borrow some money and keep driving around I want your love Falling head over heels for people I don’t know When I’m scared to death of dying alone I want your love So I’ll borrow some money and keep driving around I want your love This is the year of the ghost from lonely coast to lonely coast This is the year that we’re gonna face our fears These are the best days that you’ll ever have So don’t look down and don’t look back These are the best days that you’ll ever have again So trust me friend
7.
Fuck Apathy 03:37
I never want to go to bed I never want to see the end of this Or think about all the things I'll miss My words don't mean shit anymore I've cried wolf too many times to be trusted And now I'm fucked And I'm calling my friends to make sure they still exist If I weren't afraid to leave the house I'd have no excuse not to have real friends But I guess it just depends on how Scared out of my mind I am Going to be alone is the worst plan When you're fucked up And I'm calling my friends to make sure they still exist I'm not tired of talking but they're tired of hearing about this The saddest songs should never end when you're getting drunk alone again The saddest songs are always on repeat The saddest songs should never end when you're halfway home alone again The saddest songs are always on repeat. Feel sorry for me. If it weren't up to the powers at be all the blind faith would just become apathy And fuck apathy My hands can't move emotions or piece together my life like it was once before And fuck apathy And I'm calling my friends to make sure they still exist I'm not tired of talking but they're tired of hearing about this I wanna get high and go to the hospital and tell them I'm looking for someone The saddest songs will never end when you're getting drunk alone again The saddest songs are always on repeat The saddest songs will never end when you're halfway home alone again The saddest songs are always on repeat. Feel sorry for me.
8.
Stranded 03:15
I don’t wanna get out of bed today So tell the outside world to wait I don’t wanna get out of bed today So tell the outside world to go away On the wrong side of the window on the right side of the fence We’re bottled up and smashed over the head of present tense Weary, indecisive, incomplete, and breaking down I’m hiding in the shadows of this god forsaken town And it will kill me before I ever kick myself for leaving you If I could just see straight I would do the same thing too You’re eager to be desperately pathetic when full grown And blind enough to break the seams that blood and sweat have sewn So try and fail and try again, and just rely on reliars then To tell you when the going gets too tough I’m randomly arranged in a disorganized routine Of getting drunk in hopes that I’ll forget what I have seen And it’s not my fault if I don’t recall what I’m apologizing for I just want to go back to the way things were before And I’ll plan to exit until I realize That I am stranded in a milestone Of drug abuse in broken homes Losing track of misplaced thoughts I once was found but now I’m lost Attempting to complete the day Against the odds with broken faith I’m stranded, stranded, stranded, now
9.
Picture this I’m sitting there, under the gun and unprepared With nothing to fear but being scared Even when I walk the walk I still can’t bear to talk to the talk And wishing on stars that never were is just a constant reminder Behind a hearse at a stoplight She fell asleep in the daylight She never thought that she’d do that But she never said that she wouldn’t Between the floor and the new snow She fell asleep in the window She never thought that she’d do that But she never said that she wouldn’t Just like that conversation I remember having about this time last year Avoiding eye contact with myself and that guy in the bathroom mirror We were talking in circles and smoking some squares, grinning from ear to ear I’ll never forget the times I spent replacing you with beer
10.
There’s still another story just around the bend And you will never guess just where the story ends Let’s go You gotta stop trying to try too hard The sabbatical is over but you’re living in the dark Let’s go I’m gonna fly in a bird’s eye view to the plains To a place where everybody knows my name, no matter how long that it takes Over the scarecrows and the scared people Over the clouds and through all the steeples, and at the speed of sound I will be bending light and turning my luck around Traded every last cent that I thought I had For the meaning of life but I was kind of disappointed Woke up to a world that I didn’t recognize And asked around too many times to find the winning side I’m gonna walk in a bird’s eye view to the plains To a place where everybody knows my name, no matter how long that it takes Over the scarecrows and the scared people Over the clouds and through all the steeples, and at the speed of sound I will be bending light and turning my luck around I traded everything that I thought I had For the meaning of life but I was kind of disappointed I’m gonna fly in a bird's eye view to the plains To a place where everybody knows my name, and at the speed of sound I will be bending light and turning my luck around In a place surrounded by my favorite sounds In a world that I won’t ever let me down I will be bending light and turning my luck around

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released October 14, 2016

Written by Almost People
Produced by Pete Steinkpof
Recorded at Lake House Studio and Little Eden, Asbury Park NJ

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