Week 428 // Song for My Friend
by Mount Everest
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I wrote this song for a dear dear friend who called me up tonight and sounded like he could use a song. If you called me up tonight, I wrote this for you. Maybe you'll understand it without explanation, or maybe the little bit I'll offer the general audience by way of these track notes will fill in whatever bits are still confusing. You can call me back some time if you'd like a deeper sense of what I'm telling you.
If you didn't call me up tonight, I suppose I still owe you some kind of explanation of this song, since you've come all the way to this website to hear it. My friend is empathetic and deep and brilliant and creative and original and fun and awesome. He's also an amazing leader of people, and a fantastically loyal friend. When he's got trouble on his mind, I do my best to listen, and tell him what makes sense to me. I think he often feels alone in his troubles, but what ails him often reverberates within a deep sore spot in my own heart, echoing my own sorrows and fears. We're different in a lot of ways, but we're also alike. Mostly, I wish I could evaporate the demons of the world that stand between my friend and the spectacular truth of his own beauty.
I'll say this to my friend, and he can take it however he likes: I love you and I love being around you. From time to time, take a look at yourself and try to see what I see.
If you didn't call me up tonight, I suppose I still owe you some kind of explanation of this song, since you've come all the way to this website to hear it. My friend is empathetic and deep and brilliant and creative and original and fun and awesome. He's also an amazing leader of people, and a fantastically loyal friend. When he's got trouble on his mind, I do my best to listen, and tell him what makes sense to me. I think he often feels alone in his troubles, but what ails him often reverberates within a deep sore spot in my own heart, echoing my own sorrows and fears. We're different in a lot of ways, but we're also alike. Mostly, I wish I could evaporate the demons of the world that stand between my friend and the spectacular truth of his own beauty.
I'll say this to my friend, and he can take it however he likes: I love you and I love being around you. From time to time, take a look at yourself and try to see what I see.
lyrics
Where you going?
Where you going?
Where you going?
What's that way?
Hear the light split into colors
Each note you play
If you want to it's okay
To run away to my place
Watch the hand that works the pain
Heed the one that points the way
Even though
The Earth might try to swallow us whole
If it swallows us both
We'll just stay up all night
And sing to the radio
Bury a word
Bury a word
Bury a word
Try a better one
Try an idea on for size
Wear it with stripes just for fun
Stand in the doorway
And sound a note like the sun
Tell me about your troubles friend
And take your time with each one
Even though
The Earth might try to swallow us whole
If it swallows us both
We'll just stay up all night
And sing to the radio
If it swallows us both
We can stay up all night
And sing to the radio
Where you going?
Where you going?
What's that way?
Hear the light split into colors
Each note you play
If you want to it's okay
To run away to my place
Watch the hand that works the pain
Heed the one that points the way
Even though
The Earth might try to swallow us whole
If it swallows us both
We'll just stay up all night
And sing to the radio
Bury a word
Bury a word
Bury a word
Try a better one
Try an idea on for size
Wear it with stripes just for fun
Stand in the doorway
And sound a note like the sun
Tell me about your troubles friend
And take your time with each one
Even though
The Earth might try to swallow us whole
If it swallows us both
We'll just stay up all night
And sing to the radio
If it swallows us both
We can stay up all night
And sing to the radio
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released January 28, 2019
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Mount Everest Maine
I’ve been making up a new song every week since 2010.
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