David Best told the story behind the song to Songs for Whoever:
”The song started off very differently to how it finished. It began as a slow cluster type instrumental written on a farfisa. We then added the words but felt the song didn’t fit in with how we wanted the record to sound so we put it t...
Keep your friends out of (?)
Its no coincidence that I've tasted
Pervasive patterns of negative
Excuses
We built shipwrecks out of relationships
We used expletives as bandages
A match stitch struck sparks a flame
Sparks a flame (extinct?)
We attempted little stabs at success
We looked around, we haven't found it yet
A spark extinguished before its ignited
A spark never met
We invented little stabs at happiness
Failed attempts at (?)
We invented little stabs at happiness
Failed attempts at
We built shipwrecks out of relationships
We used expletives as bandages
A match stitch struck sparks a flame
Sparks a flame (?)
We attempted little stabs at success
We looked around, we haven't found it yet
A spark extinguished before its ignited
A spark never met