Freaking Friends

Freaking Friends is a song by Mystik Spiral, apparently dedicated to Daria and  Jane.

Lyrically, it's typical of Trent's habit of stringing rhyming couplets together with only the slightest attention to meaning.

Musically, the song is both monotonous and all over the place. The vocal and rhythm guitar part mostly stays on one note, on the other hand, the bridge features a mellotron that would feel at home in a sixties psychedelia song, followed by a guitar solo that belongs in an eighties hair metal song.

Two different recordings exist, a complete 2:36 song with three verses, choruses, bridge and guitar solo, and an excerpt from a live performance heard in Is it Fall Yet?. The complete version has a music video, included as its own track on the complete DVD box set and made available for viewing on Reburb. Reburb praises it as "Mystik Spiral's most ambitious song yet, an opus of sorts, clocking in at least 2 minutes. Jesse's solo will really knock your socks off, if you wear them, which he doesn't."

It is the only Mystik Spiral song that exists in a complete version, and in-universe, it is the only song Mystik Spiral has recorded in the studio. Trent answered two questions about the song and video in the IIFY chat room:

"05:36:59 PM> MODMSG everchic182:hey trent, how was it making the mystic spyral video

05:37:13 PM> mtvtrent:It was okay, but I'm directing the next one myself

05:37:19 PM> MODMSG ytheworldsux:trent? are you guys gonna put out a cd?

05:37:33 PM> mtvtrent:Yeah, it is a 15 track cd and we only have 14 left to go "

Lyrics
When the aliens come

When the death rays hum

When the bombers bomb

We'll still be freakin' friends

When the whip comes down

When they nuke the town

When dead clowns can't clown

We'll still be freakin' friends

(Chorus)

Freakin' friends,

Freakin' friends,

Till we come to bad ends,

We're freakin' friends.

Freakin' friends,

Freakin' friends,

Till we come to bad ends,

We're freakin' friends.

When the 'skeeter bites

Lightning hits our kites

When we miss our flights

We'll still be freakin' friends

When my number's called

When my garden's walled

When my tires are bald

We'll still be freakin' friends

(Chorus)

Freakin' friends,

Freakin' friends,

Till we come to bad ends,

We're freakin' friends.

Freakin' friends,

Freakin' friends,

Till we come to bad ends,

We're freakin' friends.

I was halfway down the plank

Had a stick against my flank

Then you pulled up in the Tank

Rock on...

(Guitar solo)

When we're parched with drought

And we can't catch trout

When my voice gives out (cough)

We'll still be freakin' friends

When the razor cuts

When they torch the huts

When I hate your guts

We'll still be freakin' friends

(Chorus 2x)

Freakin' friends,

Freakin' friends,

Till we come to bad ends,

We're freakin' friends.

Freakin' friends,

Freakin' friends,

Till we come to bad ends,

We're freakin' friends.

Freakin' friends,

Freakin' friends,

Till we come to bad ends,

We're freakin' friends.

Freakin' friends,

Freakin' friends,

Till we come to bad ends,

We're freakin' friends.