LYRICS & CREDITS
"Old Friends, Reunited"
This song is a toast to my old friends. If you want to change my life, well I won't.
Written and performed by Dylan Owen
Produced by naebird, Nicole Rich, Wes Henry
Mixed by naebird
Mastered by naebird
Artwork by Ryan Falcoa
Original photo by Paul Kingston (2012)
A Nowhere Kids Creation
This song will appear on the 10-year anniversary edition of Keep Your Friends Close
“Old Friends, Reunited”
Da da da
Da da da
I keep my friends close
I picture myself as a ghost
Who never had enough
A spirit of my hometown, so
I’ll be coming back for ya
They say that entertainers always seem to turn their backs and run
Well I think that’s backwards
Let’s turn that around
I want to patch it up
I’ve always been a traveler
Lonesome sort of mystifying
Why I can’t define my happiness
In its alignment
If you think I’m happy
Simply cuz I spit and rhyme
Rethink it I’m
The furthest thing from settled
That you’ll ever get to find
And the reason is simply
I don’t feel fulfilled inside
And I don’t think I’ll be fulfilled
If I don’t revisit my life
It’s an old trend
Reincited
I’m frozen
In my likeness
I’m hoping
We invited
An old friend
Reunited
We were a band of horses
Riding off into the night
We wore suits of armor
Guided by nothing but the fight
Leave your love behind ya
Carry off and out of sight
Where the sky is pitch black the stars are bright
We were a gang of bandits
Chainsmokers set for life
We were sharing sad stories on the railing when the bikes
Lay asleep and all the people already faded their lights
I will give up all I’ve got but if you wanna change my life
Well I won’t
Well I won’t
Well I won’t…
If you wanna change my life well I won’t
Ever change who I am to gain your acceptance
And I won’t stay past my time
There’s no encore on my setlist
So
We were a mission born
And we were a mission lost
We were a cannon filled with ammunition all night long
We were stomping through the marsh grounds of this suburbia
Kicking picket fence parts down and painting poets’ words on em
And stealing lawn decor, up till 4, the next day listless
Paradoxical
The way we shine
Like front porch lights on Christmas
They remind me this will end
We kill the past to live again
But we made history with our friends
(I think that I’m still missing them!)
We were a band of horses
Riding off into the night
We wore suits of armor
Guided by nothing but the fight
Leave your love behind ya
Carry off and out of sight
Where the sky is pitch black the stars are bright
We were a gang of bandits
Chainsmokers set for life
We were sharing sad stories on the railing when the bikes
Lay asleep and all the people already faded their lights
I will give up all I’ve got but if you wanna change my life
Well I won’t
Well I won’t
Well I won’t
If you wanna change my life
Well I won’t
Well I won’t
Well I won’t
If you wanna change my life
Well I won’t
Well I won’t
Well I won’t
No, no I keep my friends close
Yeah I keep my friends close
C’mon everybody
I keep my friends close
Close
Close
I keep my friends close
Close
Close
Even when we get old
Old
Old
I’ll keep my friends close
Old Friends, Reunited
2022
Much love
From now to eternity
I will be here as long as you will