From the recording The Friday Songs
"Daybreak" is inspired by someone who wrote to us with his perceptions of Facebook and how people you haven't seen for decades suddenly ask to be your friend, even if you rarely spoke to them during schooldays.
Often people try to make their lives sound as interesting as possible, and take carefully angled shots to hide their blemishes. It is a strange game, but we all reach a stage where we play it!
When we, Jeremy and Lorraine, wrote this song we included an age-reference in our own existence: that of leading a mad teenage life with our music when some think we should behave more sensibly and settle down. Pah...
Lyrics
DAYBREAK
People at our stage
Reclaim a lost age
By Photoshopping themselves young
An old comrade
I so hoped they’d
Degenerated a little more than I’ve done
Blur all detail
Pixel downscale
To fit my life and all who passed through on one screen
Self-satisfied
A thumbnail never lied
We haven’t changed an ounce since seventeen
Pretend we’re eighteen
Stars awaiting
Raving till daybreak
Shouldn’t we know better by now?
And now I’ve friends
My reach extends
From Bonzai Beach to Cork via Liverpool
A poke today
So coolly they
Forget we never once spoke throughout school
Pretend we’re eighteen
Stars awaiting
Raving till daybreak
Shouldn’t we know better by now?