Mi Amigo

Album: Come Around Sundown (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • Frontman Caleb Followill sings on this melancholic track of a bad-seed friend, who "Chews me up and spits me out/And then walks my a-- home"

Comments: 4

  • Marz from Norfolk VaIts alcohol and the effects it has on Caleb
  • Layla from Charleston, ScIt seems to speak of Caleb Followill's alcohol issues. IMHO, Caleb's "Amigo" is alcohol or more precisely, his addiction. For anyone who has ever loved an alcoholic, the identity of that friend is all too familiar.
  • Robert from Fall River, WiEnter your comment here...I think this song is about a good friend that gets drunk with him.
  • Cameron from Cyclone, WvActually he says: "Walks my ass home".
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