Lara and The Birds - Days

Описание: Days is a song I wrote remembering a friend from my teenage years, who is no longer with us. The video was shot in the village I lived in when I met her, Blackrod, Greater Manchester, and in Chorley, Lancashire, where she was from, and in my hometown of Longridge, Lancashire. I couldn't wait to leave these places when I was 18, but now as an adult I find a beauty in simply being alive wherever that may be.

Lara And The Birds is an indie-folk singer-songwriter from the north of England. For lovers of Kate Rusby, Laura Marling, Joni Mitchell, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, Aimee Mann, Kae Tempest and Kate Bush.

Lyrics:
DAYS
Days are for living
Days are what we're given
Hot concrete in the backyard and your dad's bringing plates
Corned beef hash and sliced white bread and it's getting late
Sunburnt shoulders getting cool now beneath spaghetti straps
Twelve years old we've talked so much all year that now our lips are chapped
Best friends that first day on the bus to big school
And now that it's summer I just wanna be with you
Cos these days are for living
Yeah days are what we're given

Now I'm brushing your hair on a Friday night out
And we're singing in harmony we're working things out
And I've only kissed one boy before and I found it kinda slimey
Kinda wish we could stay in tonight watch a film with you beside me
We're fifteen and my boobs are as big as they'll ever get
You'll get just fifteen years more but you don't know that yet
Cos these days are for living
Yeah days are what we're given

Now you've got a car and I can't even drive
I watch you pull away and I envy your life
You've got a boyfriend now and I've got a fat pony
You're the star in all the school shows and I'm clever and I'm lonely
Seventeen and on a high road speeding to exams
We're being told that we should leave here being told we should make plans
But these days are what we live in

And I've got so many of them can't I spare even one
For my good friend even though she's gone?
I swear I'll try to make the most of each and every one but
Lord knows we all have our bad days
Yeah days

Oh Monday's a funday
And Tuesday's a blues day
And Wednesday's a friends day
And Thursday's a cursed day
And Friday's a fly day
And Saturday's my day
And Sunday's a done day
And what should we do with these
Days?
Days
Aren't we lucky
With all these
Days.