We Were Friends – about the song
Greg on Jul 26 2007 at 11:24 pm | Filed under: About the Songs
WE WERE FRIENDS
We Were Friends was one of those songs that just flowed out of my pen onto paper (they’re the really good ones).
It is the only jazz sounding song on the album.
It is semi biographical about some experiences in my life and is also about being in love with someone through thick and thin, a union that goes beyond this life and into the next. Someone that you know you can trust will stand by you no matter what life may send your way and who you love with every fiber of your being.
At the time I wrote the song I had no children but since then I have had the good fortune of helping to bring two wonderful kids into this crazy world and I can really see how they will carry on the seeds of Love that their mum and I plant in them by the things they learn from us.
The chord structure I had for this song was minor and major bar chords and for me with my weakening hand, it was becoming too hard to play anymore,
It was a song I wasn’t satisfied with until a great musician named Kit Cotter came along and added his magical touch to it with some subtle guitar and keys, giving the song just what it needed to make it sing.
The beginning of the song starts rather suddenly which was our intention, not sure why but it seemed the right way to begin it.
Tappaci and Herrin are doing backing vocals that add a nice, soft and seductive sound to it all.
At the end we hear a solo from the “Funky Love Horns” that leads the song out into a mexican sunset. Although it was played on keyboard, we tried to make it sound as though someone was actually playing a real trumpet and after a few hours of editing backwards and forwards we felt we achieved what we set out for, I hope you like it.