Song for a Buddy

from Unreliable Narrator by Average Joey

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I wrote this song for an old friend back home

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Life was hell in our boring little town
suburban purgatory with the strip malls all around
but we made the best of it, we had to find our own fun
nothin' to do but spend time with you

with my best friends in a basement cracking up till the crack of dawn
untainted imaginations making scenes to silly songs
and we make our own movies as we began to write
our own identities, age 15

I guess I always took for granted all the beauty that surrounds
going to pretty boy or high rock or the lake outside of town
and jumping from a rope swing into the cold unknown
a big splash, a joyous scream, sweet 16

at the walmart parking lot or the rutters we would meet
to smoke some week and just drive around
our first taste of feeling free
we knew all the songs by biggie small by heart
with the volume dialed up in the chief, 17

first love it hit me hard, it nearly knocked me off my feet
teens in heat, senior week, and an embrace so sweet
I express how I feel through these mix CDs
initials carved in a tree, 18

Those initials fade, I felt betrayed, and my heart began to break
and the cancer took my grandmother, I couldn't help as she faded away
the doctor offered me some pills, but I never got the prescription filled
I don't know what depression means, I'm only 19

I finally made it out of our boring little town
to find my independence, I was college bound
everyone seemed so ignorant when I came back to visit
compared to me, wise and educated at age 20

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from Unreliable Narrator, released August 21, 2020

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