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Day Friend
(Byrne, Hampshire, Kent)
Remember when you were young and you used to have summer holidays in the sun? Well this is a song to try and recapture those times.
Drive down for the weekend
We'd all make a day friend
Press your face against the window waiting
Its a race to see the sea
Play out in any weather
As long as were together
And stay up to love those sunny evenings
Day skies redden overhead
No dont ever change your mind
No dont ever change your mind
Im trying to reach you
Im trying not to leave you
Now we see the world in a different way
I still feel the same for you today
Footsteps in the sand get washed away
Originally Rich had the idea to write about the friend you always made when you were younger and who you played with on beach holidays in the sun. The friend for a day, because invariably you never saw them again, and they now only exist in old holiday photos.
With that idea in mind, Rich and Sarah came up with a long list of holiday words and themes, some are listed below. Quite a few lyric sessions were had for this song as some of the lyrics were a bit gay!
Ben and Rich worked on the lyrics for the second verse and added a subtle melody variation half an hour before debuting the song at The Garage on 21.11.03. They also added the trademark harmonies in the bridges and chrorus. Ben is justly proud the unusual chord choice (a C major in the key of A) that rounds off the intro to this song. This bluesy chord change was later used just before the middle 8 and as the final chord to the song.
It was one of these songs a bit like BLU where the original versions were longer and after a bit of culling and tightening the song ended up with the 2 verse format.
Marco's keys are great in this song just what it needs. Although a bit gay this is one of Rich's favourites
OLD WORDS
Skim stones over the waves
Hide out in penny arcades
We can stay like its summer everyday
wheel down the rollercoaster
escape the morning parades
making daisy chains on the lawn
Piers rotting wood looking down through the gaps at the sea
Trampolines and kiddy rollercoaster trains
Boy's trunks and girls swimming costumes with frilly skirt bitts
frisbee
coves
stripy windbreakers
orange and brown 79s curtains/carpets/sofas/caravans/chalets
coconut fragrant suncream!
pink blotchy sunburn tingling in bed and making you shiver in the evenings
country lanes that won't end
peddlbeoats
making scrapbooks
seaweed around rockpools
sandy feet dancing floating dust
coloured faces
fish and chips
etc etc etc (there's more than enough for another song here!)
OLD MELODY
A Amaj7 A7
And when there's nothing else to say
F#
Then you should go for the weekend
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