Lyrics

Blood Is Just an Address

A sweeping melodic tribute to chosen family and the friends who show up at half past two, driven by a rich cello swell.

The story

Family isn't made by kinship alone, but also by people who are there for each other. The song tells of lifelong friends, paths that parted, and relationships deliberately ended.

"Just slower texts and farther cities" shows how some friendships disappear: not through a fight, but through ever-growing distance.

Some of you go back to bikes dropped in the grass
Band names we scratched in the back of a desk
Borrowed tapes and the songs we wore to death
Half of who I am has still got your fingerprints
You came from night shifts, from a friend's cold flat
From one broke summer, from a better year
Different chapters, different scars
And every one of you is still right here

Not the names I got by blood
The ones I'd drive all night to reach

You're the ones who showed up
When I called at half past two
Blood is just an address
The family I picked was you
And I'll show up, I'll show up
Every time, the way you do
You're the ones who showed up
So I'll always show for you

Oh-oh, the ones who showed up
Oh-oh, the ones who showed up

And some of you I lost to nothing
No slammed phone, no line I crossed
Just slower texts and farther cities
You drift, and nobody counts the cost
I don't hold a grudge on any of you
You were the best of who I was back then
And if we never split another round
I hope the years stay kind to you, my friend

You're the ones who showed up
When I called at half past two
Blood is just an address
The family I picked was you
And I'll show up, I'll show up
Every time, the way you do
You're the ones who showed up
So I'll always show for you

Oh-oh, the ones who showed up
Oh-oh, the ones who showed up

And one or two I had to walk from
Not a drift — a line I finally drew
You taught me what a friend won't ask for
Things I'll never let a friend go through
I don't wish you any harm at all
I just learned the room I can't stay in
Kept the lesson, left the rest behind
And I stopped saying your name

You're the ones who showed up
When I called at half past two
Blood is just an address
The family I picked was you
And I'll show up, I'll show up
Every time, the way you do
You're the ones who showed up
So I'll always show for you

Oh-oh, the ones who showed up
Oh-oh, the ones who showed up

The ones who showed up — still here
Still mine

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