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Fruit Bats
The Ruminant Band
My Unusual Friend

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My Unusual Friend

Release date: 4th August 2009

From The Ruminant Band

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About This Track

"My Unusual Friend" is a track by Fruit Bats, from the album The Ruminant Band, released 4th August 2009. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

My Unusual Friend

Back when I was first on my own

Before I had me a love, before playing in a band

At the tender underage

Not old enough to drink, but the best age to get drunk

You were only the world that I had

Just me and my unusual friend

Playing songs to the magic box

Till the holes in the old rotten roof

Snowed the cold light of morning

Back when you substituted for girls

Surrogate for food and the passer of the time

In the aching dehydrated dawn

With my bruised-up heart on the mend

I'd hold you in my hand

Yeah, I miss you, my unusual friend

I knew that if you stuck around

One weird warm night, you'd sneak in my room and kill

And then float out, belongs on a breeze

I'll miss you, my unusual friend

'Cause you were only the world that I had

Yeah I'll miss you, my unusual friend

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Track details

From The Ruminant Band

2009

Album

The Ruminant Band

Release year

2009

—Beautiful Morning Light
—Being On Our Own
—Flamingo
—Feather Bed
—My Unusual Friend
—Primitive Man
—Singing Joy to the World
—Tegucigalpa
—The Hobo Girl
—The Blessed Breeze
—The Ruminant Band

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Fruit Bats — The Landfill (from The Landfill) [2:56]
Fruit Bats — That Goddamn Sun (from The Landfill)
Fruit Bats — Silverfish in the Sink (from The Landfill)
Fruit Bats — The Saddest Part of the Song (from The Landfill)
Fruit Bats — Fishin' for a Vision (from The Landfill)
Fruit Bats — Think Aboutcha (from The Landfill)
Fruit Bats — All Wounds (from The Landfill)
Fruit Bats — Hummingbird Sage (from The Landfill)
Fruit Bats — Wild Pony Tower Moment (from The Landfill)
Fruit Bats — Building a Cathedral
Fruit Bats — First Girl I Loved
Fruit Bats — Puddle Jumper
Fruit Bats — Two Thousand Four
Fruit Bats — Year of the Crow
Fruit Bats — Baby Man
Fruit Bats — Moon's Too Bright
Fruit Bats — Let You People Down
Fruit Bats — Creature from the Wild
Fruit Bats — Stuck in My Head Again
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Fruit Bats — Sick of This Feeling
Fruit Bats — The Deep Well
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Credited: Dan Stout, Eric D. Johnson, Graeme Gibson, Ryan Boyles