Fairweather Friends

worth noting that this is the second time that "drink wine and screw" has come in a Queens song, the first being "walking on the sidewalk"

Self explanatory tale of non platonic friends with benefits. The ending is amusing because Josh sort of mocks the cheesiness or cliche in the over-usage of said motive in lyrics.

"Drink and screw"

i'd like to believe this is a reference to walkin' on the sidewalks

Assorted observations: As other commenters have mentioned, "drink wine and screw" also appears in the lyrics to "Walkin' On The Sidewalks" off their first record. Although he later backtracked, Homme credited said eponymous record as an influence on the current one. Secondly, "It ain't so long before the dawn, when the sun is gone so are you," transitions into "gonna pray for rain again and again," which suggests that he might actually welcome the storm if it reveals who his true friends are.
Less apparent is how these references relate to "My God Is The Sun." I have difficulty understanding that track anyway, but this track certainly seems to mark a shift in his attitude toward the sun. The best I can do is to suggest that he regards the sun, and god, and possibly fate, as among the "fairweather friends" which he's cutting ties with. The opening lines could as easily relate to the sun as to another person. The sun also combusts vampires, who seem to be a theme on this album. Some have suggested that Homme regards himself as literally undead after dying on the operating table, and a traditional vampire would certainly prefer rain to sunny skies. "The Vampire of Time and Memory" seems to conceptualize a vampire as something feeding on human misery, and the metaphorical rain in this song does represent said misery. That's all I got. Anyone else know anything?

Seeing Mark lanegan in writing credits we must assume it has something to do with getting Mark clean from heroin and away from his lifestyle.

100% correct lyrics from the ...Like Clockwork LP:

Is there anyone out there? Or am I just walking alone? When I turned around and found that you'd gone before the first rain could fall

It seems every single time I was bleeding Broken promises that never came true It ain't so long before the dawn When the sun is gone so are you

So what's it gonna take to get you back in bed? Gossips, frauds and snakes They're just our best fair-weather friends

One day when we're far away from everything that hurts Drink wine and screw is all we do everyday

So what's it gonna take to get you back in bed? Gossips, frauds and snakes They're just our best fair-weather friends

You know the hour's late Don't let 'em in your head I'm gonna pray for rain again & again

Fairweather friends Goodbye blue sky

This song seems to be about that kind of friend thar stills by your side only in the good moments, but when you really need them, when you're passing by some real problem in your life, or a dark moment, like Josh was with his cirurgy, and his death-experience, these fairweather friends go away, they're gone in the first chance, before the first rain fall.

It seems like almost all of this album talks about the people who might have deserted him in a time of need. People he wants but that don't want to stick around for the hard times, those unwilling to give up their self-centered or materialistic ways to help someone out.

I had read, before hearing this song, that it included many guest artists, including Elton John and Trent Reznor. I guess I just started off with the assumption that it was about friends in the music industry, both musicians and suits. However, it's really about the fans. They love you while you're hot, and give you tons of money. And it was never about having the most fans, at the beginning. It was about making the best music. So, we can hope for rain every day, if that means making great music, even if none of the fans love it. We never gave a shit about them anyhow.

The kind of aesthetically emotional tirade that could only be of a birth child of Elton John and Josh Homme. If you’re going to sit and enjoy the resentful energy of Fairweather friends you absolutely must folliw it up with I Appear Missing