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"Friendship" is a true story. It is also intentionally written to be as saccharine as possible. It has since become a Modesto music scene song of legend and a significant albatross in my body of work. The opening line was pinched from a Pokemon Advice meme from around mid-to-late 2009 that was even my avatar on my ScoreDoom profile for a while, and the song's original title was "Words of Wisdom" - no, I don't know why either.

lyrics

You don't know this yet
But we will be great friends
Yes, it's true
Oh, we will be great friends

(Great friends! Great friends!!)

Let's hang out all the time
I've got nothing better to do
And so do you, I'm willing to bet
Oh, we will be great friends

(Great friends! Great friends!!)

Let's get to know each other
And do lots of things together
You're part of my world now, am I in yours?
Oh, we will be great friends

(Great friends! Great friends!!)

So we're now close friends, and it's true!
Everything's all shiny and happy
I know I'll have someone to count on
Cuz we are great friends

[INTENTIONALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE SPOKEN SEGMENT]
(I think I've realized something here, folks...)

We have spent too much time together
You're probably getting tired of me
That's alright, I suppose
But we're still great friends

(Great friends! Great friends!!)

Then we will have an argument
And I will say something that'll offend you
Or possibly do something that'll shock you
And then we won't be great friends

(Great friends? Great friends?!)

I'll just wallow in this moodiness
And you can go back to your life
We'll stop talking to each other
Then we won't be great friends

(Great friends! Great friends!!)

Two or three or four months later
I'll say I'm sorry because I know you won't
We can go back to talking to each other
And then we will be great friends

(That's right!)

And then we will be great friends, yeah
Then we will be great friends, yeah
Then we will be great friends, yeah
Then we will be great friends!

SPOKEN: Are you with me on this, people?

credits

from Stuff People Like (15th Anniversary Edition), released July 5, 2023
Written by Dan Vallerand. Recorded at Modesto Sound on May 26th, 2010.

Gang vocals include the talents of Mark Oesau, Micah Van Zandt, Drew Blum, George Mery, and me.

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