Song meanings

All My Friends Live on the Internet

Scoobert Doobert · Kōan · 2022 · From KŌAN

Platonic love for the group chat: best friends you might never meet IRL, and a wifi router you have to slap to keep them in frame.

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The hook is a contradiction the song never resolves, on purpose: all my friends live on the internet, but there’s nothing virtual about you. The relationships are real; the geography isn’t. The bit about never wanting to meet in person isn’t antisocial. It’s the fear that flesh would kill the vibe you actually have.

Mom thinks it’s pathetic. The song apologizes to mom, then keeps going. The town doesn’t get him; the group chat does. Aliens, lag, frozen frames, DSP throttling, slapping the router: the infrastructure of modern friendship rendered as bedroom-pop logistics. The neighbor’s password is Secret123. Lucky me.

It’s a platonic love song for people who only exist as voice and memes and late-night co-op, and it treats that as worth celebrating, not apologizing for.

Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics.

Lyrics
All my friends live on the internet
Ooo
All my friends live on the internet
Ooo
C'mon

Would you be mad if I said I never really wanna meet ya
In person, like,
Wouldn't that kill the vibe we got?
Would you be sad if I said you're prolly
My best friend
My mom thinks I'm pathetic
I think she's getting old
(Sorry, mom)

All my friends live on the internet
Ooo
All my friends live on the internet
Ooo
There's nothing virtual about you
All my friends live on the internet
Ooo
Come on

Are you free talk right now
There's no one in this town that gets me
Maybe you and I could
Kill some aliens and laugh it off

Would you be glad if I said
I'm never ever gonna ghost ya
Can you hear me?
(No)
Hold up
I am frozen

My wifi's down again
How am I supposed to
See my friends
When DSPs be throttling
(No cap)

I slap my wifi router
But notice that my neighbor
Set his password to
Secret123
(Lucky me)

All my friends live on the internet
Ooo
All my friends live on the internet
Ooo
There's nothign virtual about you
All my friends live on the internet
Ooo
Yeah