A tribute to friends

So I have been listening to A Tribute To Friends pretty much incessantly for the last few days and I was wondering if there was a story behind it? I'm not sure what it is about the song but I love it...

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Permalink Reply by Tammy (Landshark) on September 3, 2009 at 1:07am

Good question Holly! This song is so catchy but I've also wondered about the lyrics. It sure paints a vivid "video" in my mind when I hear it. I believe it's based on crazy dreams, and I think I heard this in the "Dreams" LiveKast. It's been a while since I heard that Kast though. I'm interested in hearing the official response.

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Permalink Reply by Mikequad (Shenlong) on September 3, 2009 at 5:08pm

i REALLY like the song ... i always just figured it was written for thier kids lol its seems like that kinda song but i wondered how they came up with it its kinda odd but catchy and fun to listen to

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Permalink Reply by Rhett (Shahbaz) on September 4, 2009 at 11:04am

i hope I answered this adequately on last night's Kast!

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Permalink Reply by Tammy (Landshark) on September 4, 2009 at 9:20pm

Aha, I must have dreamed that this song was written about dreams that Rhett and Link had collectively.

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Permalink Reply by Holly C (Seko) on September 7, 2009 at 10:53pm

Thanks so much, I really appreciate you guys answering this on the kast! And you were dead on about me hearing it on the CD on the way home. Haha. And now for my interpretation...

I think the beginning story about going to the water hole is about you guys having adventures and such when you were younger. You would egg each other on and even if you got in trouble everything would be ok in the end. The chorus is saying that having a true friend is having one that sticks by you no matter what situations you two may come across. The middle about the brier patch is about you both going through some rough stuff but you stuck together and made it out. You were closer friends and better people because of those times. The last part where the porcupine loses his prickliness is kind of the end of the friendship/adventure. The friends have to say goodbye and even though it's really hard they can look back at all the fun times they had together and know they both had a real friend.

I'm probably off but that's just the way I see it. :)

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Permalink Reply by Link on September 8, 2009 at 9:26am

but then he regained his prickliness...?

Holly Calvelli said:

Thanks so much, I really appreciate you guys answering this on the kast! And you were dead on about me hearing it on the CD on the way home. Haha. And now for my interpretation...

I think the beginning story about going to the water hole is about you guys having adventures and such when you were younger. You would egg each other on and even if you got in trouble everything would be ok in the end. The chorus is saying that having a true friend is having one that sticks by you no matter what situations you two may come across. The middle about the brier patch is about you both going through some rough stuff but you stuck together and made it out. You were closer friends and better people because of those times. The last part where the porcupine loses his prickliness is kind of the end of the friendship/adventure. The friends have to say goodbye and even though it's really hard they can look back at all the fun times they had together and know they both had a real friend.

I'm probably off but that's just the way I see it. :)

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Permalink Reply by Holly C (Seko) on September 9, 2009 at 11:04pm

ok scratch the other... I think his prickliness stands for his zest and happiness in life. He loses it and becomes depressed because of a loss he has suffered and seems to have given up. Jim stays by him though, and gets him through the rough patch and he is once again prickly. maybe?

Link Neal said:

but then he regained his prickliness...?

Holly Calvelli said:
Thanks so much, I really appreciate you guys answering this on the kast! And you were dead on about me hearing it on the CD on the way home. Haha. And now for my interpretation...

I think the beginning story about going to the water hole is about you guys having adventures and such when you were younger. You would egg each other on and even if you got in trouble everything would be ok in the end. The chorus is saying that having a true friend is having one that sticks by you no matter what situations you two may come across. The middle about the brier patch is about you both going through some rough stuff but you stuck together and made it out. You were closer friends and better people because of those times. The last part where the porcupine loses his prickliness is kind of the end of the friendship/adventure. The friends have to say goodbye and even though it's really hard they can look back at all the fun times they had together and know they both had a real friend.

I'm probably off but that's just the way I see it. :)

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on March 10, 2015 at 12:37pm

FYI - "A Tribute to Friends" was from this early release:

from the Album I'm Sorry, What Was That? (Live in the Living Room)

Original Release Date: December 1, 2005
Label: Catapult
Duration: 4:40 minutes

A Tribute to Friends

Here is a link to the RhettandLinkast videos still available online, but since Rhett didn't give an episode title in his answer I didn't have time to search through them all for the specific one that aired live on 03-Sep-2009.