I Lost a Friend

I Lost a Friend is a single by FINNEAS and the opening track on his debut EP, Blood Harmony. The song was released on May 2nd, 2019. A music video was later released for the song on June 25, 2019.

Background
While talking about the song with WBUR Finneas said, "This is a song I wrote at some point last summer. It was, you know, pretty much autobiographical about a friendship of mine that lasted all through high school and kind of fallen apart. And I think it’s OK to have friends come and go in your life depending on how much real-life value that you add to each other. Like sometimes you just grow up and you have different interests and you ride in different waves. And I think that’s OK. But in this case, we were like still best friends, and I felt that there was, you know, a sort of a raw patch there of some form of resentment or maybe misguided envy or something. At the time, I wasn’t really sure how to deal with that, but I decided that it was probably best to try to write a song about it and to not write a song that was vilifying that person in any way or trying to make myself look like the victim. I’m really glad I wrote that song because it’s been fun to see how many people have connected with it and be like, ‘Oh wow, I guess everybody goes through that.’ Where there’s a lot of like breakup songs … but there’s not a lot like friendship breakup songs."

He also talked with Coup de Main and said, "I was nervous putting out ‘I Lost A Friend’ because it was about a friend of mine whom I had sort of become friends with again, and I knew that he was going to hear it, so I sent it to him first to preface the song by saying, “This is how I was feeling at the time, and I’m glad to have you back in my life.” That made me nervous."

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