One of the more popular tracks by The Dandy Warhols and taken from the fourth Dandy Warhol album ‘Welcome to the Monkey House‘. I always thought that this band doesn’t get the attention they deserve apart from the time ‘Bohemian Like You” was a single, that song was flogged to death across the airwaves. With song titles like Not if you were the last junkie on Earth, Hard on for Jesus, The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone etc, they’re bound to be eclectic and intriguing even if it doesn’t interest you.

The title pretty much gives it away unless there is some hidden meaning that I’m not getting, An acknowledgement that he used to be friends with someone but they have since went their separate ways and he is completely comfortable with that as can be seen in the first verse:

‘A long time ago
We used to be friends
But I haven’t thought of you lately at all
If ever again
A greeting I send to you
Short and sweet to the soul I intend ‘

The second verse seems that the singer is contemplating the possible reasons as to why their friendship has deterioated in the first. Seems like the reasons are pretty petty and that the friendship was already gone at that stage.

‘It’s something I said
Or someone I know
Or you called me up
Maybe I wasn’t home
Now everybody needs some time
And everybody knows
The rest of it’s fine
And everybody knows.‘

The chorus is very catchy with a couple of people sharing haromonies while the music composition is tapped up a notch from the verses. It’s like the whole song is basically We’re not friends anymore and I don’t care. If your interested in listening to this song then check out a youtube video for it here . Another interesting titbit is the use of Synthesisers which I haven’t heard in other Dandy Warhol songs but then again I haven’t heard many of their albums. Apparently this is the theme tune to a tv show called Veronica Mars, the show itself better bloody do this song justice !

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