My friends were more mysterious when I knew them in real life
Now they've found Instagram and taken her as a wife
they use filters
to kid me that they're young - nightclub saturation, all bleached by Insta sun

I see their restaurants and the people they tag
but I knew them better in real life
by the people they shagged
we'd sit on the balcony drinking coffee or tea
now we never talk apart from virtually

Filtered ghosts of friends 
All lost at sea

Hey Johnny hold my camera
how does the water feel?
I'm jumping from this bridge
we're gonna make a reel
but pass me a beer
I must first imbibe
and if I die
just tell them all to hit like and subscribe

Filtered ghosts of friends all lost at sea

Sorry I can't talk now 
I'm with a client
I have a deadline

Instagram took the friends I loved from me

Filtered ghosts of friends
Filtered ghosts all lost at sea


Jim Neversink 2025.

FILTERED GHOSTS  - jim neversink

cowboy

RIVER OF DOUBT

When it's quiet like this
birds have bothers,
restlessly scanning autumn trees
nervous and knowing
beady and twitchy
exposed to the slightest breeze

Elegance gone
just rats with wings
but startled they launch into beautiful things
in sketches and studies
in paintings and poems
on bric-a-brac for peasants
or vases for kings
when vermin take flight they're beautiful things

Shuffle on branches so equally bare
a synchronised process
- a gift to the air
released from their scaffolds
in imaginary slings
when vermin take flight
they're beautiful things
when vermin take flight

Music and lyrics by Jim Neversink.
November 2017
Copyright.

BIRDS  (rough demo) - Jim Neversink

Here is another track from my new album ......... i dont have an album title yet ......................  All i know is that this album will be quiet , simple , messy , real and beautiful .  
Thank you all for always listening to me and always giving me love and respect for my craft .
you keep me trying 
XXX
Felix 2019

FILTERED GHOSTS - jim neversink

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