This song is fantastic indeed ferdinand, and almost makes me cry each time I hear it!
It's just a lovely song about friendship ("don't feel so ashamed to have friends" - what a great line!)
The melody sounds like a plea from a man who has squandered his friends in the past and doesn't want others to make the same mistake. Almost in a similar vein to 'I Threw It All Away" by Bob Dylan, another favourite song of mine.
By the end of the song I'm always thinking of good friends I haven't seen for a while, and wanting to call them up to see how they are.
I also love singing along to the daring lines "Give up your job / Squander your cash" - I always think, well maybe he's got a point, that sounds like a good plan...!
Also, I always think he's going to sing "smoke hash" in the last verse, as it goes with the rhyme scheme, which always makes me chuckle...
This song is fantastic indeed ferdinand, and almost makes me cry each time I hear it!
It's just a lovely song about friendship ("don't feel so ashamed to have friends" - what a great line!)
The melody sounds like a plea from a man who has squandered his friends in the past and doesn't want others to make the same mistake. Almost in a similar vein to 'I Threw It All Away" by Bob Dylan, another favourite song of mine.
By the end of the song I'm always thinking of good friends I haven't seen for a while, and wanting to call them up to see how they are.
I also love singing along to the daring lines "Give up your job / Squander your cash" - I always think, well maybe he's got a point, that sounds like a good plan...!
Also, I always think he's going to sing "smoke hash" in the last verse, as it goes with the rhyme scheme, which always makes me chuckle...