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'Distant Friend' is a song I’d had for a few years - since 1998 actually. A bit of a love song really. I’d demo’d it with the original line up of the band a couple of years back and that was a good version – more up-tempo and a little bit funkier, but how I’d always really heard it in my head was with a feel similar to Summer Breeze by the Isley Brothers. Well we slowed it down at this session and then when Andy Stokes came onboard and put that Hammond Organ / Leslie Speaker classic soulful keyboard down – well we were just drooling, I decided to keep it like this for this release.

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Distant Friend.

A distant friend of mine said he’d seen you on the train,
Your coming back for more and more, he said you’d smiled but looked away,

I don’t believe in love or the hold it’s got on me,
I don’t believe in what you say now,
And now we both break down and cry.

Both break down now, both break down and cry,
Both break down now, both break down and –

Well I try to take it in my stride, look all casual and cool,
But you hit me like a left hook girl, I need my corner and my stool, well what a fool – what a fool.

I don’t believe in love and the hold it’s got on me,
And I don’t believe in what you say now,
But we both break down and –

Cry for help and happiness and the things that we got wrong,
You cry out ‘it’s my fault’ and you slam the door,
Well I thought you needed help girl oh and then you helped yourself to me,
Well you chewed me up and spit me out and I stumbled to the floor,
And now we both break down and cry.

Both break down now, both break down and cry,
Both break down now, both break down and cry –

Yeah we cry

(Guitar)

I love the way you walk and the way you talk, I love the way you laugh and the way you cry now,
The way you walk and the way you talk, I love the way you laugh and the way you cry now
The way you walk and the way you talk, I love the way you laugh and the way you cry now,
The way you walk and the way you talk, I love the way you laugh and the way you cry now.



Words and Music. Gary O’Dea 1998.

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from Twenty Years of Love and Pain​.​.​.​they hurt the same. EP, track released January 6, 2006

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Gary O'Dea / GOJO’ MUSIC…acoustically driven…blending together elements of blues, country, funk, soul and reggae with the passion / attitude of old school punk / rock n’ roll to produce a rocking mix of rhythms to soothe your soul in these troubled times.

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