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Friend of a Friend

by Katie Morey

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1.
When I’m gone What will I remember most I fell asleep with you on the phone Those buildings sure were tall When I die I’ll finally get to rest my bones They’ve walked through the night alone They’ve gone further than my heart could go September it’s finally summer I’m a highland parker With no cellular marker I said I’d try it didn’t I try it The train home Is hazy like my sights are long I’m as jaded as a blue green stone But I’ll come back with a different song Sun setter it’s morning somewhere I will send my archer With no cellular marker On your front step back from Bushwick Where have you been I cannot remember The chromes and the heathers Roaming untethered Poor without measure Worn without weather Hotter than heaven September seven September seven
2.
What if I told you Maybe last September I could feel the changes in the wind Cooling down more In the early evening The smell of flowers dying again I thought you’d never know you know I thought you’d never know But here we are in our corner of the world If I could fathom Really just imagine The warm breeze clutching to first thaw You’d be standing Waiting at the back fence Grinning like you knew it all along I thought you’d never know you know I thought you’d never know But here you are in my corner of the world Come full circle I can still remember The way it looked from your streets edge Green and shrouded with tiny gleams of yellow Speckled violet by sunsets red the way it looked from your streets edge I thought you’d never know you know I thought you’d never know But here we are in our corner of the world I thought you’d never know you know I thought you’d dare not go But here we are in our corner of the world
3.
Water Snakes 03:28
Wading in the water I was the color blue I tried to tilt my head back And let my thoughts swim loose They circled round like watersnakes Then disappeared into the lake I watched the ripples scatter in their haste I watched the ripples scatter in their haste Didn’t they tell me Don’t run on an empty head If I was listening I didn’t hear what they said Their words all hissed like watersnakes And though the noise cut like a blade I told myself it’s not worth being afraid I told myself it’s not worth being afraid Round and round the wheel It’s not what they say it’s how they make you feel Maybe I don’t know I’m the moon’s reflection on the lake dark and cold I always fall for the mirrors and the smoke I woke up in the garden Carpeted by light Back to where I started Tiny sprouts of life They surfaced just like watersnakes Their tiny heads had come to make The circle that my fingers softly trace the circle that my fingers softly trace Round and round the wheel It’s not what they say it’s how they make you feel Maybe I don’t know I’m the moon’s reflection on the lake dark and cold I always fall for the mirrors and the smoke
4.
I’m a scavenger bird I’ve learned and unlearned What it is I think I deserve It’s only chance That I should enjoy what I’ve earned Just before night Hovering five feet from the earth Caught in a shroud Trying to stand out in the murk In the dew dropped morning Clouds will cry I’ll be none the wiser for staying inside I’m a scavenger bird I soar and search Carrying my wings of worth Looking for dead leaves Or little specks of iridescent dirt In the cold damp morning Flowers will sigh I'll be none the wiser For staying inside I’m a scavenger bird Trying to discern What to keep and what to burn A little piece there And something to spare for the worms And then I’ll be off Ready or not Moving with the evening fog Like getting pulled with the crowd Can’t feel the ground but you don’t try to make it stop
5.
Warm yourself under the heat vent In this cold little world that we’re living in Sometimes it’s nice to pretend Sometimes it’s nice Sometimes I wonder how much pretending We do to survive Trial by fire Trial by fire Cool yourself under the faucet Try not to think about what you would do if you lost it What is this life with no one to remember it by What is a body in pain to you And what if they multiply Trial by fire Trial by fire Trial by fire Close yourself off from the real world Open only to listen to the same kind of people How do I make it right With two wrongs on either side How have we come to this place And who and what do we hide behind Trial by fire Trial by fire Trial by fire
6.
Lifeline 03:08
Don’t ever feel like you’re losing time When the odds have already made up their mind Go make a place for your heart to say You’ve got more on your side in more ways than you think But I guess thinking about you doesn't change anything I’m just wasting a lifeline Sorry I missed you but didn’t say When the days got so short I got scared away With winter behind us and who knows to go I’m a bit occupied but it always feels slow But I guess thinking about you doesn't change anything I’m just wasting a lifeline But I guess thinking about you doesn't change anything I’m just wasting wasting wasting a lifeline
7.
Daisy Chain 03:06
Honeysuckle growing on the vine Creeping sweetly like the pass of time My heartache is woven Through the barbed wire tightly twined Like honeysuckle growing on the vine Daisies in the chainlink break and mend Good as mended then they break again I let my conscience grow petals and a stem Daisies in the chain link break and mend If I could push the pull above my head and throw it far away I’d likely feel abandoned without sadness I would never be the same Skipping through the poppies like a stone Swimming through the ever sinking pull Out in the clearing I tied my hands with rope Skipping through the poppies like a stone Skipping through the poppies like a stone The sun is setting slow and steady and I want to But first bask in it’s celebrity star struck eyes
8.
Isolation 04:07
How’d I end up on this planet Isolation I’ve been so lost since I’ve landed Isolation Wouldn’t know who to call if I could They’d only say worrying does no good I’m just an echo in a cavern Isolation Prospects but no motivation Isolation Dazed in an anticipation Isolation Not every door has a key I close my eyes just to see Growing an appreciation For Isolation isolation Pour another cup let it overflow Let your troubles go go go Go to bed and dream it’s not really as it seems Let it go go go go go Holding you out of arms reach Keeping my toes with the beat I’m just an echo in a canyon Isolation isolation Pour another cup let it overflow Let your troubles go go go Go to bed and dream it’s not really as it seems Let it go go go go go Isolation
9.
Come on get your head right Somebody’s watching you Don’t let the modern pulse get the best of you Better to kill those dreams yourself than let somebody else Gotta pull yourself up no good sleeping You’re the closest thing to real will I feel that way years from now Hardly think I’m ready for a lifetime under your spell Dressed up for the wedding I’m eight years old and ready To live through the nineties like I will turn out fine And all it is is number after number on the number line All that shows on paper is all that's left that I can define Hard times though you can’t remind me if you tried Guess I put it in the back of my mind I’m just your baby much as you are mine And the world’s just a hole right between my eyes Stuck on the road between your world and mine I’m moving to New York to disorient my mind It’s the only place that I can feel so far away and so close to home Hard times though you can’t remind me if you tried Guess I put it in the back of my mind I’m just your baby much as you are mine And the world’s just a hole right between my eyes I might be nothing but nothing can negate me I am a nobody but nobody can break me
10.
Deep End 03:57
On a winter’s day Looking out the door at the leaves and lace I bid the hard dirt wins from now and until early May Like a needle’s eye Stringing conversation with a magnifying Glass full or empty I’m contented that your mine You feel it too Nothing to see in an empty room Remember how we ran that day To the falls in the pouring rain I wanna fly with trouble close behind And the warmth of every summer day gone by I wanna run to the pounding of our blood And the beating of our hearts and of the sun Silver on the banks Moving with the cars in a steady daze The storms the castle and the kingdom is the frozen lake I can see us there Counting the steps up a thousands stairs We wore our shoes down to the bone and didn't care Remember the time we laughed till the tears fell from our eyes At the end of the day Sleepy eyed you say I wanna fly with trouble close behind And the warmth of every summer day gone by I wanna run to the pounding in our blood Feel the betting of our hearts and of the sun You feel it too Nothing to write in an empty room Remember how we ran that day To the falls in the pouring rain I wanna fly with trouble in our eyes And the warmth of every summer day gone by I wanna run to the pounding of our blood And the beating of our hearts and of the sun We could run away
11.
Northerners 02:18
When I met you years ago The years flashed by my eyes It’s like I already knew you in another life Back then we were clouds of chaos swirling briefly by If I’m the rain cloud you’re the same cloud in another sky Sunny days we learned to chase the music in our minds Knowing we’d evaporate if taken by our lies Back then we were flowers budding verses without rhyme If I’m the sundown you're the next town turning out the lights Growing up is learning who you have to leave behind Every chapter is another song for you to write I can hear a melody softly drifting by If I’m the daybreak you’re the sun’s wake breathing in new life
12.
My One 03:27
My love if I had known that you would fill my life with song That you’d complete the parts of me that felt undone How fast would I run? Faster than the days gone To you To you if I had said I’m scared to lose you friend of mine Would you proclaim those words from mountains in our minds? How high would I climb? How high wouldn’t I? For you and I For you and I my eyes close and open at the break of day For you and I time goes at such a pace How long have I wanted? How long til the furthest sun? My one My one had I been sleeping not to see you all along? And am I dreaming now to see you as you are? You’re so much more than I thought You’re everything I want My love

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released March 4, 2022

All songs written by Katie Morey
Deep End written by Ben Morey and Katie Morey
Recorded and mixed by Ben Morey at Submarine Sound Studios
Mastered by Chris Reba at The Philosophy Department
Album Artwork by Justin Pulver
Photography by Will Cornfield

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