Friend
Same political dread as My Friend, Scoobert: stripped to FEiN theatrical pop: senator, elephant, body politics, then if we could love we could be friends.
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ISRC QZDA51826005 (soundexchange)
FEiN single (June 27, 2018), the same song as My Friend, Scoobert on Finding $D (2017), retitled and rerecorded in FEiN’s theatrical pop register. Luke Francis Walton’s lyrics first; Brandon Michael Woodward on the duo recording. No Scoobert in the title, the cartoon friend becomes plain Friend.
Same political skeleton as the debut: the motherfuckin senator, the tyrant loving elephant, Arjuna, don’t kill again, negotiate the right to my body. FEiN trims the pressing silence middle and the will you be my friend tag so the chorus folds straight into if we could love, then we could be friends.
What changes is delivery: two voices, roughly two minutes, a pop-rock arrangement instead of Scoobert bedroom chaos. The loneliness is the same (hangin on, I barely am / not alone, though I know I am), just a cleaner line, with steel corrected from steal on deities.
Origin chain: Finding $D (solo lab notebook) → FEiN Friend (2018 single) → live My Friend, Scoobert on Live from the Void (2020). Same lyricist throughout; FEiN is the early duo pass at a song that already existed.
See: My Friend, Scoobert · FEiN · Catalog.
Lyrics by Luke Francis Walton (first released as My Friend, Scoobert on Finding $D, 2017). FEiN recording with Brandon Michael Woodward.
Lyrics
He's a motherfuckin senator Telling me to live in the real world Rome is fallen, God is dead Our water's filled with lead What a fine world He's a tyrant loving elephant Ivory is a worthy commodity Arjuna, don't kill again Baby, steel your mind against deities Hangin on, I barely am I could use a friend Not alone, though I know I am Would you hold my hand If we could love, then we could be friends If we could love, then we all could be friends If we could love, then we could be friends If we could love, then we all could be friends He's the model of minority Saying we should round up and shoot em History of sodomy, negotiate the right to my body Hangin on, I barely am I could use a friend Not alone, though I know I am Would you hold my hand If we could love, then we could be friends If we could love, then we all could be friends If we could love, then we could be friends If we could love, then we all could be friends