ONLY OUR FRIENDS WE CHOOSE

Banging around getting nowhere fast
Days of daggers and dismay
Funny, it seems we’ve been here often in the past
When our loved ones come to stay

Wouldn’t they come to see my life unfold?
To encourage, to console?
Or is it to check to see that I still fit the mould
Of the only life they know?

Ah ho, ha oh
Ah ho, ha oh

This is my ground, but they bring theirs along
And everything of me must wait
My life is their whirlwind until they desert again
Pools of regret left at the gate

Ah
Ah ho, ha oh
Ah ho, ha oh

Chaos to silence
Rage to regret
Then you leave me
Loyal to heartless
Devotion to threat
And of the void you leave, you’re blissfully unaware
That is a question only
For me

Return to the fold, to the turbulence of the day
Where the noise will dampen down
Thoughts of my sorrow from a world away
In a different coloured town

Ah
Ah ho, ha oh
Ah ho, ha oh

Chaos to silence
Rage to regret
Then you leave me
Loyal to heartless
Devotion to threat
And of the void you leave, you’re blissfully unaware
That is a question only
For me

Ah ho, ha oh
Only our friends we choose
Ah ho, ha oh
Only our friends we choose
Ah ho, ha oh
Only our friends we choose
Ah ho, ha oh