Fairweather Friend (lyrics & your thoughts)

[sarab]

Everyone's discussing the 'diamonds' line, I believe it to be 'diamonds on leaves' and hear that when I listen carefully, also backing this up is the introduction from the University performance when she's talking about her friend/aunt moving and writing a farewell speech including a Sylvia Plath poem

So yeah

Diamonds on leaves

That introduction was for Get Good though, not this song...

[04jhowarth]

Blushes like a fool* but still, I think it sounds like diamonds on leaves ha

[sarab]

Blushes like a fool* but still, I think it sounds like diamonds on leaves ha

eh, no big deal!  I hear lots of things, that's why I decided not to guess anymore, lol!

[KULPDOGG]

Blushes like a fool* but still, I think it sounds like diamonds on leaves ha

rings

[sabasaba]

I haven't heard 'Fair Weather Friends' in a really long time. I've mostly been listening to 'Carousel'. I can't wait until the album is released and I get to hear the studio version of it!

[mikepepsi]

Say you see through the folly but you do it for the fame
Im fighting jet streams drinking cheap wine on airplans
Your in LA not Chicago
Key under mat, i walk the dog order in home alone

Found your letter on a full moon sunday night.
Some other girl that hes found has these plans a real life
Pour the vodka and it dulls sharp lies,
Breathe the words, Diamonds and Pearls

I got from the first segment. I prefered dulls sharp knives. I think the first draft of the song was better but maybe vanessa felt it was too close to the bone

[AlexanderLaska]

I know this is really random, but I was listening to the new live version of this song (which I LOVE btw) along with the lyrics, and I just have one little insignificant correction: I'm pretty sure the vodka line is: "Pour the vodka, and it dulls sharp lies."

actually it's fights.

lol 

Really? Damn, I really liked the sharp lies line too.

I'm still using the original lyrics. They were the best, in my opinion. D; "Dulls sharp knives" sounds more poetic than lies. Much more figurative. xD

I totally agree with you.  "Dulls sharp knives" is better because it's better imagery than the more literal versions, AND it's obviously a metaphor for something somebody said to her - whether it's a lie, or an insult, or the letter she found, etc.

I think from now on I'm going to stop listening to really early live performances - because it seems like she tends to change the lyrics around a lot, and it's hard to get used to sometimes.

[Manny]

I have to admit I never liked this song until now! WOW!! amazing! 

[KULPDOGG]

album version: (posted before complete high quality album version was heard, or seeing official lyrics)
I think I got it though =P
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Say you see through the folly
But you do it for the fame
And I'm fighting a jet stream
Drinking cheap wine on airplanes
And you're in L.A., not Chicago
Key under mat, I walk the dog, order in, home alone

I found your letter on a full moon Sunday night
Some other girl in your spell casting plans for her life
Pour the vodka and it dulls sharp fights
Breathe the words, of diamonds on rings

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

Sing for the after show, those candy colored lips
Your age is showing and you gotta work harder for it
It's always easier with freshmen
I'm not as clever, it should bring you to life

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

My fairweather friend
My fairweather friend

Live for the folly
But you did it for the fame
Now you're 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 mean it
Then magical thinking gets us by

Gets us by
Gets us by

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 fairweather friend

[Bruised]

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

I love when this part kicks in so much 

[[sobriquet]]

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

I love when this part kicks in so much 

Yep. Actually, the whole record just incorporate this certain technique, as if the clouds gathering for a storm.

Especially in Hear The Bells

[mikepepsi]

I think they say "You're not as clever, but she brings you to life"
im not sure any more! lol

also definitely diamonds on rings.

[JamesCrowley]

Anyone know the new key for fairweather friend? i've just put it down a third but i'm not sure that it's right. Also, i was really surprised how much i liked the preview. I thought i'd be too attached to the first version i heard but the studio version sounds amazing.

[[sobriquet]]

It's in the key of A. major.

[JamesCrowley]

It's in the key of A. major.

The new version? it sounds like it's in a different key o_O