How To Make Friends

from All Your Days - LP by James O'Brien

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I’ve been thinking, people, about how to make friends
How to get it started, knowing how it all ends

Not a friendly sort of person, still, I think you ought to know
It helps to have a friendly little place you can go

Now, in the way of making friendships, here’s a couple of rules
For friendly situations, for keeping things cool

To start, if friends are sweet, man, stick with sugar and spice
But if your friends are dirty people, I’ve got different advice

If your friends are heavy drinkers, you can go and get plowed
If they’re quiet, friendly thinkers, don’t go out and get loud

If they’re claustrophobic people, stay away from big jams
If your friends are open vistas, go as wide as you can

Now, if they’re chatty, chatty people, call them up on your phone
If your friends have lost their friends, be their friend and give them homes

If your friends are lonely people, don’t you leave your friends alone
If your friends are lonely people, don’t you leave your friends alone

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from All Your Days - LP, released January 11, 2022
Guitars, vocals, keyboards: James O'Brien
Synth bass: Matthew Girard
Drums: Richard Adkins

Mixed and mastered by Matthew Girard

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James O'Brien New York, New York

James O’Brien toured the U.S. and the U.K. from 1998–2004 playing politically aware songs, sometimes solo and sometimes with a band, sharing billings with artists such as Hamell on Trial, Dan Bern, Michael McDermott, John Sinclair, Bill Miller and Freedy Johnson.

In 2017, after a 13-year hiatus, he began to release archival and new material, expanding his catalog to fourteen albums as of 2022.
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