Beaver Nelson - When We Were Friends

Beaver wrote and recorded "When We Were Friends" for his 2001 album, Undisturbed.

Video by Stephen Henderson: https://www.thehabitofseeing.com/
Sound mixing by Phil Miller at The Padded Rooms Recording Studio

You can listen to the album version of this song on Spotify or other streaming services.

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Lyrics

When We Were Friends
By Beaver Nelson

The laying, the shading, the fading of the lines
The even knowing that there's something wrong
The grinding, not finding, reminding of a time
When there was such a thing as holding on
It was so nice looking at your smile
And thinking such a thing would never end

Another, another, another candle day
Wick burning down so slow
Some other, some other, some other gentle way
Remembrances of a smoother road
Time behind the wheel that we would trade
Wasn't it easier where we were friends

I've been here, you've been here, we've both been here before
A thousand times up and down the curves
Don't want to, don't need to, don't see the reasons for
Making trips when no reason's served
Adventure's only real when you don't know what's in store
And frowns only have one face to lend

It's coming, it's going, it's right before us now
It's sad enough with a hand to hold
I've named it, you've named it, we've both cursed it down
It's bad enough without being cold
One back against the wind while the other'd bow
Wasn't it easier when we were friends

So what's left, what's right, what's under our control
Only where we go not where we've been
So here's a hand, and there's a hand, and hand in hand we'll roll
Pretending until we smile again
It's just a turn from now back down to the road
That we used to walk when we were friends