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Surprise Surprise

from The Silent Years (Side B) by Farewell Friend

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Let's take a drive, with your imagination please. Imagine you're teaching a kid to drive. This is maybe some folk's worst nightmare. It isn't something I'm sure I'll get to do. During the pandemic I found out that my wife and I may not be able to have kids and I think this song is dealing with what it means to face fears and uncertainty in the wake of losing my mom and my parenthood in light of a world that's increasingly complex and inhospitable. There's hope, I can't say what I've survived but I'm asking you to come around and commiserate.

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SURPRISE SURPRISE

Around the block
Won’t you give the thing a twirl
Remember every right turn is a wide left
For any asshole on his phone
Can’t keep their eyes on the road
Eyes on the road
So puzzle my suspicions
Carry my heartache to higher ground
Clarity don’t bury me here now
Cause I’m enough to know
When all the doubts are leaking out
Without you

So tell me what you don’t know
Surprise surprise another greatest fear
Oh my God let’s have a decent cry about it
I’m right here so I can let you go
I can let you go

Hey mom you’re angry
And you passed it on to me on the sly
And I try to let it walk
Around the yard some nights
Dad I think grandpa seemed indifferent
You held on to this with interest
But you showed me all the exits
With your eyes

To you your faith always a boundary
To me it was a gulp of open sky
The exits all surround you in a theater on fire
Here come the Holy Spirit
Teach me the science of design

So tell me what you don’t know
Surprise surprise another greatest fear
Oh my god let’s have a decent cry about it

I don’t know all I’ve survived
Could you come around?
Help me remember
Cause I can’t say what I’ll become
If your not around to help me remind myself

Kingdom come Your will be done
Kingdom come in spite of all the shit I done

© Tom Troyer 2024

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from The Silent Years (Side B), released March 26, 2024
Recorded at 1317 Studios
Evan Campfield on bass
Zac Covington on drums
Tom Troyer on piano and backup vocals
Engineered by Cole Covington
Mixed by Matt Wyatt
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian

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Farewell Friend North Carolina

Farewell Friend is a North Carolina based folk rock band. Farewell Friend’s music is first and foremost an exploration of poetry and narrative

Tom - singer, songwriter, guitar
Evan - upright bass, moog, rickenbacker
Caleb - violin and telecaster
Zac - drums
Featuring Kevan Chandler on harmonica and Galen Clark on mandolin.

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