I've Got Friends - Jesse Marchant

I’ve got friends

Trading their lives

For the first class seat

Where alone they make it look easy

For the passing people

To be impressed

Though they are dead

And I’ve got friends

Who were married

And it set my bones

Beginning to shake

Saying love is a choice

Well now they chose it

And there they sit

Trying to make it

Something that it ain’t

Nowadays you can

Make a show of your life

To convince yourself of its worth

What do you think

Of my private vacation

Do the blues look deep

Does the suite look big enough

Under my skin I had a feeling

It was all going wrong

I hid away

But then the devil came home

Now I got nowhere left to be

Try to face him with the day

Did I tell you I was lost out there

Sitting in the sand drunk

Watching the bay

Staring at a cruise

That was sailing in

Under my burnt skin

I was laughing to myself

And I couldn’t say how I had come to this

When I was a kid

I had my eye on the score

Terrifying times

Got me frozen and stiff

Brought me too close

To quitting, I guess

The will did not come back

All the things I had hoped

That you would say

Had long been addressed

Fail now to be judged

Not a faint light of hope

For which to stay

Lost in the dread

I feel a rush out of time