Ballad for a lost Friend

from Decaying Functions by Scale and the Galvanics

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Style: Melancholic agglomerate
Album: Decaying functions

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Lyrics: BALLAD FOR A LOST FRIEND

I broke my journey
To be with a friend
He’d lost the will to follow
Breathing out with breathing in

With one eye on the optic
Wrapping bacon round the veal
So his bladder did the thinking
And time took everything that it could steal

CHORUS
My face is honest
What you see is what I feel
Whatever I was thinking
I was obliged to reveal

If looking right through me
Is all it takes to get you through the day
I could gladly be transparent
Or better still just go away

The last time that I saw him
A matter of a few short weeks
He went screamng through his twenties
And wound up sodden on a beach

I read the letters that you wrote me
A second time, what could they teach
My naive eyes, to my surprise
All their meanings had been breached

CHORUS

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from Decaying Functions, track released October 24, 2015

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