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It's Not Easy To Be Your Friend

from It's Not Easy To Be Your Friend by Henry Bateman

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I don’t claim to understand
and I will help you any way I can
But you’re an ocean
and I’m on the sand losing strength in the weight of your tide

Sometimes I make you laugh
and I notice you recover too fast
See him pulling up your mask
and the water freeze in your eye

It’s not easy to be your friend
It’s not easy to be your friend
When all you do is pirouette
It’s not easy to be your friend

You phone me up and you’re in a trench
You’re full of fire but no defence
Nothing you say makes any sense
and you don’t hear a word I say

You’ve turned 180 degrees
You're all claws and bared teeth
You don’t give a shit about me
and I’m sorry but I’m no saint

It’s not easy to be your friend (to be your friend)
It’s not easy to be your friend (to be your friend)
When all you do is pirouette
It’s not easy to be your friend

Being this close to you
It’s like trying to catch a tiny bird in my hands
This close to you
It’s like trying to find the words to define who I am
This close to you
It’s like living life with no plans
Just waiting for your command

It’s not easy to be your friend, no (to be your friend)
It’s not easy to be your friend (to be your friend)
When all you do is pirouette
It’s not easy to be your friend

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from It's Not Easy To Be Your Friend, released January 26, 2024
Words and music by Henry Bateman
All instruments and programming by Henry Bateman
Additional vocals by Hannah Lamb

Produced and mixed by Henry Bateman
Mastered by Taylor Dupree for 12k Mastering

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Henry Bateman England, UK

Henry Bateman is a songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist from Gloucestershire, currently based in Leeds.


"Not so much a breath of fresh air - more a full force musical gale that
lifts you to places you didn't know existed. A very extraordinarily gifted
young man; one of the coming musical generation's front-runners in the
making" - John Drummond (Promoter for Brewery Blues, Cirencester)
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