Stay Away from My Friends

Stay Away From My Friends is the eighth song off of the second Pierce the Veil album, Selfish Machines.

Description
"Stay Away from My Friends" is about an ex-girlfriend who was trying to be friends with Fuentes' friends, after the pair had broken-up. The piano featured on the song was played by his friend Dave Yaden, and was written by Fuentes in his residence of San Diego. The song came about by the band wanting to "make it as different as possible from the rest" of the material, placed in "the middle of the album as a sort of a breath of fresh air."

Lyrics
Waking up your neighbors downstairs,

I've been inside your bedroom a thousand years. And as you tie me to the bed for good I say that I want you in the most unromantic way.

Louisiana, you're torturing me with a beautiful face. Ana come on, I thought we had a damn good thing. A penny in the couch and a diamond ring.

So baby stay away from my friends, 'cause I need them to carry me. When it's over I'll count back from ten, and you can listen to glass hearts shattering.

I don't know how you got into me, down my throat and made a home in my veins. They used to be the rivers that would take us away, but now you only call me every Christmas and my birthday. I still can't believe how you look next to me, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">just like a strip club bedroom scene.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Baby stay away from my friends, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'cause I need them to carry me. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">When it's over I'll count back from ten, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">and you can listen to something that you've never heard before.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">But you don't know what it's like <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">to wake up in the middle of the night, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">scaring the thought of kissing razors. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">This blood evacuation is telling me to cave in. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Stay away. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Oh no. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Just stay away from my friends.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Selfish Machines

 * 1) Besitos
 * 2) Southern Constellations
 * 3) The Boy Who Could Fly
 * 4) Caraphernelia
 * 5) Fast Times at Clairemont High
 * 6) The New National Anthem
 * 7) Bulletproof Love
 * 8) Stay Away From My Friends
 * 9) I Don't Care If You're Contagious
 * 10) Disasterology
 * 11) Million Dollar Houses (The Painter)
 * 12) The Sky Under the Sea