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Friends On Benefits

from Echo Bridge by Gavin Osborn & The Comment Section

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Remember when we sat up all night, trying to rewrite the works of Raymond Carver? And it was so much harder and it took longer than we planned, to turn his stories into songs, and we turned an opportunity missed into a chance to sing some early Taylor Swift?
And the way you stroked my burgeoning belly as we watched a cop show on the telly, knowing this was just one day of so many days ahead.
And “who cares if we waste this one cos there’ll be millions more like this to come”, free of guilt we let time tick on as my Dad slept on upstairs. Blissfully unaware of his wine cupboard being raided, oh those were the greatest days, you know?
‘We Could See The Smallest Things’, our unfinished concept album, was just scrunched up and discarded next to my striped-t-shirt and your black cardy. And what started as a dance to dad’s Frank Sinatra singles, ended up giving us tingles on the cold kitchen floor

Two bodies pressed together, quietly. As the record played ‘Come Fly With Me’, Outside Christmas lights far as the eye could see, do you remember that December night, Marie?

But gone’s all the Carver, the Sinatra, and the Swift
Cos five years on, now it’s all just come to this
We had so much to give then, Now we’re existing not living
We’ve turned into two friends on benefits,
We’ve turned into two friends on benefits.

Five Christmases later, you're crying into your calculator, wondering if it's fate or whether we made the wrong choice,
Money causes all this tension, now its too tight to even mention
Tax is taxing and there's no pension, when you're self employed
Trying to get by on credits of fifty quid a week
These years they run like rabbits but we barely even speak
I'm scanning supermarket yellow stickers for cheap meals
You search the shops and you compare buy one get one free deals.

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from Echo Bridge, released September 1, 2017

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