Family Friend Lyrics

Lyric discussion by tracyjacks 

Cover art for Family Friend lyrics by Vaccines, The

In an interview, Pete Robertson (Vaccines' drummer) was asked if he had a favorite song to play live. He mentioned "If You Wanna" and also said the following...

Pete: I really like playing ‘Family Friend’, the last song on the album. We actually don’t do that song a lot. We play it when we feel like it. It’s quite different from the rest of the album. It’s difficult to pull off live because it’s quite sparse and very slow at the top, and then ends up going a little crazy.

Interviewer: ‘Family Friend’ almost feels like a b-side. It is a notably different style of song from the rest of What Did You Expect? and it feels like a track that you were playing around with in the studio, that you all liked enough to add to the other eleven songs on the album.

Pete: Yes, that’s not far off. We spent a while in the studio with that one. It kind of took a few goes to get it right, because it’s kind of a spontaneous thing the way it speeds up and the way the guitar in it builds. We wound up waiting to do that song until really late in the recording process. That was an all-nighter that we pulled and we had a few drinks beforehand and just tried to relax into that song when we recorded it. So we’ll do that song live when we feel the setting is right. It’s kind of a special thing for us.

(Source: http://lithiummagazine.com/interview-pete-robertson-vaccines-may-30th-2011)