From a Kerrang interview: All My Friends is clearly a very special song for Creeper, though not one Will finds easy to discuss. given it was written while Ian was in hospital and based on that time.
He’s so unsure, in fact, he asks his friend’s permission before discussing it.
“It was in the live ro...
[Verse 1]
Sex, death and the infinite void
The very thoughts we're taught to avoid
I breathe them out as you breathe them in
My rent-a-heart is overdue
I'm such a disappointment to you
We're thirty now, we should have thought this through
And at night we get so drunk
We try to feel nothing at all and
[Chorus]
All my friends
All my friends
All my friends hurt
All my friends
All my friends
All my friends hurt
[Verse 2]
Each day I awake to the death of a dream
That I won't mourn, loss becomes routine
I'm breathing in to counts of ten
My confidant, my dearest friend
I watched you grow as you watched me bend
Then cried myself to sleep again
Now you drift in this reality
You lost your way, somewhere with me and
[Chorus]
All my friends
All my friends
All my friends hurt
All my friends
All my friends
All my friends hurt
[Bridge]
Getting high has got us all so low
Getting high has got us all so low
I'm so sorry if I failed you
You know I love you so
[Chorus]
All my friends
All my friends
All my friends hurt
All my friends
All my friends
All my friends hurt
[Outro]
Of all the words I had to say
The secrets I'd impart
The magic monolithic truths
I wrote to you at dark
I'd write them all again
Just as reckless as the start
But I wish were more careful with your heart
No longer can I live the life I knew at eighteen
No longer can I gaze into the life lived in between
The portal closed, I came opposed
And cowered at my dream
Two thousand years to sit and mourn
The death of everything
The fault is mine, our garden grew
Into this thorny mess
Infinite nights I'd fawn for you
Pathetic and hopeless
The bloom is off our rose
And now that rose is dead in part
But I wish I were
I wish I were
More careful with your heart
All My Friends was written by Creeper.
All My Friends was produced by Xandy Barry.
Creeper released All My Friends on Fri May 22 2020.
“‘All My Friends’ is a departure from our narrative, and wasn’t meant to be on the album at all. I had originally written another ballad for this point, called ‘Shattered,’ which was really dramatic and about our character’s death. But I had also written this song late one night, while drunk, after...