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It's Natural to Lose Friends

from It's Natural to Lose Friends by chris portka

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I started writing this song in an off-the-grid cabin in the dense redwood forests of Cazadero, California during the Summer of 2019. Except for my dog, I was alone on my buddy's 50 acres of land with nothing to do but pull weeds, do some yoga, and play every instrument I could fit into the car. I pounded on the drums, screamed my lungs out, smoked too much weed... and came away with a dozen newly sketched out songs. This is the first song of that batch to be fully produced and released.

I wrote this song as an American answer to Syd Barrett's "It Is Obvious." It's about the troubling times we live in and how we need friends and family now more than ever. Love the people who treat you with kindness, respect, and who make your life worth living. Love them now because no one is here forever.

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Stars shining brightly
Stars shine so brightly
I wonder how they live so long and why they have to die

Electric smoke fills my lungs
As the concrete cracks, this city's undone
1000 years and here is not here
A candle's not a raging fire

I'm merely dust
And I miss the old me
Sun with the cool breeze
Green grass among the trees
You see
It's natural to lose friends

A diamond solitaire
We're all diamonds and we're solitaire
Who keeps all our prayers when they inevitably vanish in the air

The new age is the screen
Everything fluorescent and clean
I just want what I see in my dreams
I see fire
I see fire
I see an endless raging fire

I'm merely dust
And I miss the old me
Sun with the cool breeze
Green grass among the trees
You see
It's natural to lose friends

When the night finally comes
And the blade make 2 from 1
What is and what was
I'm grateful I've had some fun
What is it with this life
And truth and love
What is it with
True love

Maybe it's not exactly where
You wanted it to be there

I've been dust, I've been stars
And breezes and guitars
And colliding diamond suns
Now I'm an animal on the run
So it's natural to lose friends

They're the ones who are near you
They're the ones who are near you
The ones who are a mirror to you
It's natural to lose friends

And if we're reborn
Is there anything at all to mourn?
Except how much I miss my family
And now I miss my family

It's natural to lose friends

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from It's Natural to Lose Friends, track released February 17, 2021
Mastered at Abbey Road by Christian Wright

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chris portka Oakland, California

i'm chris portka. i write, perform, and produce music. i also play live shows. good luck with everything.

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