Dead Friend

Album: Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)
Play Video
  • You don't worry about tomorrow anymore,
    'Cause you're dead
    Does anything still echo?
    Is there any trace left?
    Well I know she still remembers,
    She sleeps with your picture by her bed
    They shaved your face and washed your hair clean
    You were wearing the jacket that I met you in

    How could I not have guessed?
    She would fall in love with the first boy
    She kissed in a casket
    Fall in love with the first boy
    She kissed in a casket
    Fall in love with the first boy
    She kissed in a casket
    God damn it (God damn it)
    God damn I miss my dead friend
    I miss my dead friend

    We buried your body into the hard Oklahoma ground
    John Paul Allison, the orphan boy Pope
    Now she waits for you to haunt her
    She sleeps with your ghost at night in bed
    When you died you were only twenty six
    The most real person that I've ever met

    Well how could I not have guessed?
    She would fall in love with the first boy
    She kissed in a casket
    Fall in love with the first boy
    She kissed in a casket
    Fall in love with the first boy
    She kissed in a casket
    God damn it (God damn it)
    God damn I miss my dead friend
    I miss my dead friend

    Or your cold dead hands
    Or your cold dead lips
    Or your cold dead heart
    Or your cold dead kiss

    Or your cold dead hands
    Or your cold dead lips
    Or your cold dead heart
    Or your cold dead kiss

    Well how could I not have guessed?
    Well how could I not have guessed?
    She would fall in love with the first boy
    She kissed in a casket
    Fall in love with the first boy
    She kissed in a casket
    Fall in love with the first boy
    She kissed in a casket
    God damn it (God damn it)
    God damn I miss my dead friend Publisher: ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments

Be the first to comment...

Editor's Picks

Graham Parker

Graham ParkerSongwriter Interviews

When Judd Apatow needed under-appreciated rockers for his Knocked Up sequel, he immediately thought of Parker, who just happened to be getting his band The Rumour back together.

Christopher Cross

Christopher CrossSongwriter Interviews

The man who created Yacht Rock with "Sailing" wrote one of his biggest hits while on acid.

Benny Mardones

Benny MardonesSongwriter Interviews

His song "Into The Night" is one of the most-played of all time. For Benny, it took him to hell and back.

Kerry Livgren of Kansas

Kerry Livgren of KansasSongwriter Interviews

In this talk from the '80s, the Kansas frontman talks turning to God and writing "Dust In The Wind."

Country Song Titles

Country Song TitlesFact or Fiction

Country songs with titles so bizarre they can't possibly be real... or can they?

Randy Newman

Randy NewmanSongwriting Legends

Newman makes it look easy these days, but in this 1974 interview, he reveals the paranoia and pressures that made him yearn for his old 9-5 job.