Song Wedgie

Song: I’ve Got Friends
Artist: Manchester Orchestra
Album: Mean Everything To Nothing
Release: 2009

Manchester Orchestra are bunch of Jesus Freaks from the ‘burbs of Atlanta. Like so many other heart-on-the-sleeve indie acts, Manchester Orchestra is more about a boy who created a band around a fixed idea — himself — than about a functioning band that already happened to exist. Manchester Orchestra is a vehicle for the musings of its frontman, Andy Hull, who is himself a vehicle for a host of influences ranging from early Built to Spill to Elliott Smith to Death Cab for Cutie — admittedly, not an outrageously broad range. Hull has the trebly, perpetually aggrieved voice of Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard and an affinity for Woody Allen, biblical theology and sweeping jams, not necessarily in that order. [NPR]

Lyrics:
Dirt in the ground is what I need I got another one to tell you and another one to make you believe pity in the grass tried to be the one you needed when I told you that you wanted something bigger than me I’ve got friends in all the right places I know what they want and I know they don’t want me to stay I said that I’ve got friends in all the right places I know what they want and I know they don’t want me to stay ‘cause you are not alive when I need you I need it quickly in case you never know I can’t play where I’m not supposed to anyway dirt in the ground is what I see I need another reason why I need another reason, tell me to breathe the dirtier the sound, the best I breathe I tried to do it all for you it didn’t do anything for me ‘cause I’ve got friends in all the right places I know what they want and I know they don’t want me to stay I’ve got friends in all the right places I know what they want and I know they don’t want me to stay and you and I will find that when I need you I need it quickly in fact, you’ll never know I’ve got friends in all the right places I know what they want and I know they don’t want me to stay I said that I’ve got friends in all the right places I know what they want and I know they don’t want me to stay