(When your best friends are strung out)
You'll do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get em down
(When you find it all around)
Yeah, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start

Feeling, sleeping, in the field again,
Oh, I can feel, I can feel
I can feel, it's beginning to end

Yeah, premonition smiling in the dark
Oh, I can see, I can see
I can see the story starting to arc

Oh, oh, oh, oh

It's comes up
I've been a spoken word
I've been a river bed
I've been a rabid voice
And let it flow up from within

Sometimes it feels like I only dream in black and white

Ah, ah, ah, ah
And colors so

(When your best friends are strung out)
You'll do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get em down
(When you find it all around)
Yeah, you say it's what you need
And hide your eyes when you're close to me
(When you feel up in the clouds)
Well, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start

Waits, and fed us, slipping into dreams
Oh, I can feel, I can feel
I can feel the celestial beings

Oh welted pleasures leaving with the breath
I can see, I can see
I can see the beauty in the mask

Oh, oh, oh, oh

It draws up
I've been a river bed
I tried to salt the wound
I've carried more than I can
I feel I've got a lot to prove
Sometimes I feel like I only dream in black and white

Oh, oh, oh, oh
But colors so

(When your best friends are strung out)
You'll do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get em down
(When you find it all around)
Yeah, you say it's what you need
You hide your eyes when you're close to me
(When you feel up in the clouds)
You ought to know
That I'm here no matter where you want to go
(In your head hanging upside-down)
Well, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start

I'm here, no matter where you are
So let it in with, open arms, no matter where you are
Sometimes, you'll have to wait,
And it passes by like a satellite or star
No matter where you are

(When your best friends are strung out)
You know when (Ooh-hoo-hoo)
(When you feel up in the clouds)
Oh, yeah, you know when (Ooh-hoo-hoo)

(When your best friends are strung out)
Oh, yeah, you know when
You ought to know
That I'm here no matter where you want to go
(In your head, hanging upside-down)
Yeah, you know when
That's how you know
When your best friends are strung out


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    this song is about WRITER'S BLOCK. creativity is an artist's best friend. and in this song Mark Foster is saying his creativity is gone; that he has no words.

    now let's jump into the lyrics.

    "(When your best friend's all strung out) You do everything you can 'Cause you're never gonna let it get 'em down (When you find it all around) Yeah, it comes in waves but it's hardest from the start"

    first notice the line is "best friend's" not "best friends". with the apostrophe it means "when your best friend IS all strung out. giving evidence to the theme that "creativity is an artist's best friend". this stanza is saying that Mark, as an artist, his creativity is gone. he has no words. he has writer's block. the block comes "in waves" but he can't even start to write: "it's hardest from the start".

    "Feelings sleeping in the field again I can feel, I can feel, I can feel It's beginning to end Premonitions smiling in the dark I can see, I can see, I can see The story's starting to arc It dries up"

    this stanza shows his struggle with the block. his "feelings" (creativity) is "sleeping in the field again" (run out). "I can feel, I can feel, I can feel / It's beginning to end" meaning his writers block his coming to an end, but "Premonitions smiling in the dark". "premonitions" are strong feelings that something bad is about to come. he can feel the writer's block coming back. now just as he can see ("I can see, I can see, I can see") the words coming back to him his creativity is gone ("it dries up")

    "I've been a spoken word I've been a river bed I've been a rabid force And let it flow out from within Sometimes it feels like I only dream in black and white And color's so oh"

    this stanza shows how sometimes he feels like he is words incarnate ("I've been a spoken word") and sometimes he feels like his river of creativity has dried up ("I've been a riverbed"). Now the rest of the stanza he seems to feel confident: "I've been a rabid force / And let it flow out from within". his creativity seems to flow from within. "Sometimes I feel like I only dream and black and white" he feels like everything is clear (black and white) and he's knows exactly just what to say.

    "Waves in theta slipping into dreams I can feel, I can feel, I can feel The celestial beings Wilted pleasures leave you with a breath I can see, I can see, I can see The beauty in the mess It dries up"

    (NOT "waits, and fed us)

    this stanza his similar to the second one. showing how he's asleep and dreaming (the brain produces "theta waves" when it is drowsy). he can see the creativity but once he reaches out for it, it "dries up" again.

    tallon August 04, 2014   Link

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