Fairweather Friend (lyrics & your thoughts)

[Star7]

im so glad vanessa is still writing new songs. i love this one. it seems the more i llisten to it the more i love it.

[sabasaba]

This song is simply amazing. I can't stop listening to it on YouTube.
CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW RECORD.

[Giuliana]

I know. Fair Weather Friends is one of the best new songs. Actually, it's turning into one of my favorites. The rithm is so full of life, and the lyrics are amaaazing: "on your knees you offered a ring a real life" I love that part. And the ending is awesome!
It's a really cool song. I hope to hear many similars to this one in her new album 

[Patricius]

I can't wait for the song to come out. Slowly, it's growing on me more and more. It might overtake London as my second favorite from the 3 new songs she's performed live.

[Martin.]

I love it.

The second verse about Stephen is hilarious.

[AG.]

Can anyone tell me what shes says at 1.00 to about 1.10. She mutters something and people laugh but i can't hear what she says..

[Martin.]

She puts on a London accent saying "in London".

[[sobriquet]]

I really love this song. I love the riff in the intro, as well as the chorus, especially the lines, "Magical thinking gets us by; Gotta get by"

[KULPDOGG]

ok guys, I'm actually going to try this from that one recording we have hahaha


...making some guesses, in which case I'm leaving a (?) after the line.
trying my best, lyrics as of 10-09-2010
----- Fair-weathered Freinds ------


Say you see through the folly
But you do it for the fame
And I'm fighting the jet stream
Drinkin' cheap wine on airplanes

And you're in L.A., not Chicago
Key under mat, I walk the dog, order in, home alone

Found your letter on a full moon Sunday night
Another girl, and you spell, guess he's back for a night (?)
Pour the vodka, and it dulls sharp fights
Breaking words, a diamond band ring

And you didn't mean to do it
So I don't have to believe it
If you didn't really do it
And magical thinking gets us by

You sing for the after show, those candy colored lips
But your age is showing, and you gotta work harder for it
It's always easier with freshmen
And I'm not as clever, if she needed a ride (?)

And you didn't mean to do it
So I don't have to believe it
If we didn't really do it
And magical thinking gets us by

Fair-weathered friends
Fair-weathered friends

Say you see through the folly
But you do it for the fame
And I am fragile as porcelain
Drinking cheap wine on airplanes
And did I ever leave Chicago?
I got your message, glad you're doing well

And you didn't mean to do it
So I don't have to believe it
If we didn't really do it
And magical thinking gets us by

Oo, oo
Say you see through the folly
But you did it for the fame
Say you see through the folly
But you did it for the fame
Say you see through the folly
But you did it for the fame
Say you see through the folly
But you did it for the fame

My fair-weathered friend

[cassiemoy]

hey kulp, i can clear some of these up; i was listening quite closely to the lyrics changes once i realized she'd changed the songs.

"pour the vodka, it dulls sharp fights"

and second chorus, which i am absolutely sure of: "and i'm as fragile as porcelain, drinking cheap wine on airplanes / and did i ever leave chicago? / got your message, glad you're doing well"

[KULPDOGG]

Thanks!

also, do you think she's saying "don't have to feel cheated" instead of "don't have to believe it" ?

I kind of think she does...

[[sobriquet]]

I think the new version sounds like White Houses somehow.

[Sai]

I'm pretty sure it's still just "fair-weather friend" rather than fair-weathered. At the end of one of lines in the new recording it sounded a little like "fair-weathered" but all the rest of them lacked the "ed" sound I thought. Also, "fair-weather friend" is an idiom, so I doubt she'd change it to "weathered" unless she was trying to play with the word in some way to give it a different sort of meaning, but I'm pretty sure that isn't what she did here.

Also, I know you said you were absolutely positive, but it sounds like she said "now you're fragile as porcelain" which I also think adds a more ironic tone to the song when she follows with "drinking cheap wine on airplanes." And in the other recordings she said "you're fragile as porcelain" as well. I do kind of like it saying that she's the fragile one though, and that version definitely suits the tone of the latest recording of it.

I liked the dreamlike quality of it, and liked the changes she made to it a lot! But I think that this version was much more somber and lacked some of the fire it had in the other versions. I hope she maintains a little of her previous ferocity in the album recording.

I love this song.

[[sobriquet]]

I liked the dreamlike quality of it, and liked the changes she made to it a lot! But I think that this version was much more somber and lacked some of the fire it had in the other versions. I hope she maintains a little of her previous ferocity in the album recording.

I agree with you about the ferocity. The new version lack the force and power from the debut of the song. The second version is, IMO, much sweeter.

[KULPDOGG]

I'm pretty sure it's still just "fair-weather friend" rather than fair-weathered. At the end of one of lines in the new recording it sounded a little like "fair-weathered" but all the rest of them lacked the "ed" sound I thought. Also, "fair-weather friend" is an idiom, so I doubt she'd change it to "weathered" unless she was trying to play with the word in some way to give it a different sort of meaning, but I'm pretty sure that isn't what she did here.

I hear the -ed each time she sings it. perfectly clear. I'm certain it's there.

also, I can't see why it can't be "weathered"

Alanis Morissette says "fair weathered friends" in her song "Knees of My Bees".