As a 40 year old going through a bunch of shit and somehow stumbling across this song on a random playlist, I love it. Feels like I could have wrote this myself.
Hang in there bro. glad you found this. I'm mid 30's and I shot this tour on assignment from Vans when I was a lot younger and wished they were on my list, I had no idea. Super relatable band, also their new stuff is amazing too. They're coming to Florida so I finally get to see them while I'm not working.
I've been up. Spending every late night. In my car. Listening. To all these sad songs. I know it sounds weird. But they're helping me. Move past all these things. Running through my head.
Celeste Rivero Hey guys, I think there’s something that needs to be explained on our end here. We released a new EP on June 4th titled “Put Yourself Back Together.” There are some references in the songs that mention sleepy eyes and bony knees. There have been some negative comments regarding the amount of times we mention those two things. I want to make this post to explain the detailed meanings of both of those subjects. I assure all of you out there that we would never put something in multiple songs that doesn’t have a great amount of meaning. These songs are my life summed up into some verses and choruses. These songs are my therapy, and that goes for the four other dudes in my band too. So here we go…. Sleepy eyes refers to a time in my life in 2011. I was going through a very messy break up which then lead to a love triangle and that lead me to be depressed. The girl that I was in love with since I was eighteen had found someone else that she grew to love. She told me that she still loved me as well though. This lead to lots of sleepless nights and some weight loss as well. Thirty pounds of weight loss to be exact. Listen to our song “Floorboards” for more details on that whole situation. Well anyway, this situation and some other ones over the past few years have led me to not being able to sleep at night. I had resorted to sleeping pills in 2011 when I was depressed. I also consider myself a night owl in general. I haven’t gone to bed before 2 am in years. But mainly sleepy eyes is something that I think we have all been through in life. It’s about those nights when you’re so overworked and have so much going on that you can’t fall asleep, even if you are physically tired. Not only do I write these songs for my own therapy, but I would hope that some of you could find some peace in them. So of course I’m going to reference this subject multiple times. And that is sleepy eyes. Bony knees is a subject that pops up in a lot of our songs as well. I will keep it general at first here. I in fact do physically have bony knees. But I will surely say that there is a way deeper meaning behind these bony knees. It kind of all dates back to my depression in 2011. Like I stated before there was some weight loss, which made these knees a little more bony than before. I also found myself physically and mentally down on my knees while going through depression. Even after 2011, after I started feeling better, I would still find myself down and out on my bony knees physically and mentally. We all go through dirt in life and lot of times it makes us fall on our knees for awhile. I can easily say that dirt has put me on my knees more than I want to say. But the beautiful part about falling on your knees is getting back up. And that’s the main point of the bony knees reference. You have to get up in life and move on. We have all been there and we will all be there again. When I write bony knees in a song it reminds me of how I put all of the bullshit behind me and moved on. And that is bony knees. I just wanted to clear this all up. I don’t want anyone to ever think that we are using this as some sort of gimmick or something. We keep things real and it will always be that way. I hope you can all now find deeper meaning and connection with sleepy eyes and bony knees. -Kyle
I remember this song on my playlist on 2013, college back in the Philippines. Then I watched The Maine here in the U.S. together with Real Friends, The Technicolors and Knuckle Puck (2015) They played this song and I didn’t realize it was them that was in my playlist. Haha. Awesome night! They are great!
yeah bro i gottchu. thank you for just representing an entire nation. ya remember back in nom when the officers would give you your old test grades back that you failed. i love the couch you got me but i pawned it to buy the box we live in. good thing ive been saving my money for a few years cause i just miss it so much? ya know when ive been buying too much coffee and its just too much. ya feel me bro?
2021 visit this video again to nostalgia how great pop punk music in Early 00s era, best era where the musicians make the song for expression theyre life.
I've been up spending every late night in my car Listening to all these sad songs I know it sounds weird But they're helping me move past all these things running through my head I'll blame the mid-west and sleepy eyes I'm not where I should be I'm not what I could be But I'm not who I was Nostalgia gets the best of me When I wake up it's the same day It fucks me up And makes me miss who I used to be All I have are thoughts of me from back when I was 18 And my bony knees Don't want it to be like my teenage years I was naive and weak back then Without much trouble on my shoulders If I don't break I won't know how to put myself back together Nostalgia gets the best of me When I wake up it's the same day It fucks me up And makes me miss who I used to be All I have are thoughts of me from back when I was 18 And my bony knees If you never break You'll never know how to put yourself back together Nostalgia gets the best of me When I wake up it's the same day It fucks me up And makes me miss who I used to be All I have are thoughts of me from back when I was 18 And my bony knees
I miss bands like these and when all I cared about was my tumblr and being 16 and finding a connection with a scene lmao pop punk 2010’s revival was the shit, real friends always got me with their lyrics and Dan’s stupid boney knee shit
James Hack Really, I've been there before, that's part of why I like the music, it's easy for me to relate to. Not saying that we should celebrate depression, but it makes me feel better knowing there's someone that has felt the same way, you know? And feeling better is cool, because then I can get out and start enjoying life and stuff. (y)
i just saw them. didnt really know about them before. but oh my god. they were one of the best bands ive ever seen. they were amazing definitely gonna be more into them now.
Man, I remember when you guys released your music video for Bill and the Princess. That is a fantastic song! I'm glad you guys are still around and kickin'!
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This hits way harder at 32 even than it did at 24 back when I first heard it. Such a classic!
amen
Same from 20 to 29
wow... This is exactly how I feel now Im 32
All I have are thoughts of me from back when I was 18
I first heard this at like 14 or 15 I'm 25 now soon to be 26 definitely hits harder
Starting a new pop punk band called "Best Buds". New hit single "I Hate This Town, But Love Summer and My Friends", off the album "Pals".
IVE BEEN LAUGHING AT THIS FOR LITERALLY FIVE MINUTES NOW
LOL
This isn't just a comment... This is art...
@Billy Levy "Real Friends" (Best Buds) and the Pop Punk trope about hating ur hometown, Pretty simple, g
Almost looked it up bruh lmao
Such Knees, Much Boney, Wow.
very nice sings
was this meme really EIGHT years ago
@@maxonmendel5757 yep... Find it hard to believe myself
As a 40 year old going through a bunch of shit and somehow stumbling across this song on a random playlist, I love it. Feels like I could have wrote this myself.
Hang in there bro. glad you found this. I'm mid 30's and I shot this tour on assignment from Vans when I was a lot younger and wished they were on my list, I had no idea. Super relatable band, also their new stuff is amazing too. They're coming to Florida so I finally get to see them while I'm not working.
New album is great but this song will forever be the best real friends song
Dead...
Some of the most raw and honest lyrics I've ever heard. Going to buy everything they've ever released, now.
I've been up.
Spending every late night.
In my car.
Listening.
To all these sad songs.
I know it sounds weird.
But they're helping me.
Move past all these things.
Running through my head.
Lots of "“Sleepy Eyes and Bony Knees" in their lyrics, but I still love them, ha.
sleepy eyes and bony knees club 💖✌️
Ashley Brooks Hey you might like our song! Check out our new music video for "Harm's Way" :D
Celeste Rivero
Hey guys,
I think there’s something that needs to be explained on our end here.
We released a new EP on June 4th titled “Put Yourself Back Together.”
There are some references in the songs that mention sleepy eyes and bony
knees. There have been some negative comments regarding the amount of
times we mention those two things. I want to make this post to explain
the detailed meanings of both of those subjects. I assure all of you out
there that we would never put something in multiple songs that doesn’t
have a great amount of meaning. These songs are my life summed up into
some verses and choruses. These songs are my therapy, and that goes for
the four other dudes in my band too. So here we go….
Sleepy eyes refers to a time in my life in 2011. I was going through a
very messy break up which then lead to a love triangle and that lead me
to be depressed. The girl that I was in love with since I was eighteen
had found someone else that she grew to love. She told me that she still
loved me as well though. This lead to lots of sleepless nights and some
weight loss as well. Thirty pounds of weight loss to be exact. Listen
to our song “Floorboards” for more details on that whole situation. Well
anyway, this situation and some other ones over the past few years have
led me to not being able to sleep at night. I had resorted to sleeping
pills in 2011 when I was depressed. I also consider myself a night owl
in general. I haven’t gone to bed before 2 am in years. But mainly
sleepy eyes is something that I think we have all been through in life.
It’s about those nights when you’re so overworked and have so much going
on that you can’t fall asleep, even if you are physically tired. Not
only do I write these songs for my own therapy, but I would hope that
some of you could find some peace in them. So of course I’m going to
reference this subject multiple times. And that is sleepy eyes.
Bony knees is a subject that pops up in a lot of our songs as well. I
will keep it general at first here. I in fact do physically have bony
knees. But I will surely say that there is a way deeper meaning behind
these bony knees. It kind of all dates back to my depression in 2011.
Like I stated before there was some weight loss, which made these knees a
little more bony than before. I also found myself physically and
mentally down on my knees while going through depression. Even after
2011, after I started feeling better, I would still find myself down and
out on my bony knees physically and mentally. We all go through dirt in
life and lot of times it makes us fall on our knees for awhile. I can
easily say that dirt has put me on my knees more than I want to say. But
the beautiful part about falling on your knees is getting back up. And
that’s the main point of the bony knees reference. You have to get up in
life and move on. We have all been there and we will all be there
again. When I write bony knees in a song it reminds me of how I put all
of the bullshit behind me and moved on. And that is bony knees.
I just wanted to clear this all up. I don’t want anyone to ever think
that we are using this as some sort of gimmick or something. We keep
things real and it will always be that way. I hope you can all now find
deeper meaning and connection with sleepy eyes and bony knees.
-Kyle
Ashley Brooks yes!
+Funkenstein I know this is three months late but thank you for explaining that! I hope every album you guys make mentions bony knees.
i used to be hardcore then this song hit me in my boney knee
I miss the style of the early 2010's. Everything from hair to clothes seemed a whole lot more unique than it is today
epic fucking song
Hola bers saludame
Hola bers saludos desde Costa Rica
BersGamer ~ PVP, PARKOUR , FNAF & RANDOM GAMES Hey you might like our song then! Check out our new music video for "Harm's Way" :D
BersGamer ~ PVP, PARKOUR , FNAF & RANDOM GAMES Solamente escuchas esta canción de ellos ?
BersGamer ~ PVP, PARKOUR , FNAF & RANDOM GAMES has to be
I remember this song on my playlist on 2013, college back in the Philippines. Then I watched The Maine here in the U.S. together with Real Friends, The Technicolors and Knuckle Puck (2015) They played this song and I didn’t realize it was them that was in my playlist. Haha. Awesome night! They are great!
thanks for this song,, greetings from mexico
yeah bro i gottchu. thank you for just representing an entire nation. ya remember back in nom when the officers would give you your old test grades back that you failed. i love the couch you got me but i pawned it to buy the box we live in. good thing ive been saving my money for a few years cause i just miss it so much? ya know when ive been buying too much coffee and its just too much. ya feel me bro?
que loco que onda con este compa de arriba Tim K
agreed i love this kind of bands
2021 visit this video again to nostalgia how great pop punk music in Early 00s era, best era where the musicians make the song for expression theyre life.
This is early 2010s pop-punk, not early 2000s lol
2010s? That's 2013.
the fact that i can see myself in the crowd is putting the biggest smile on my face omfg
This is like an ode to Warped Tour. Beautiful
I've been up spending every late night in my car
Listening to all these sad songs
I know it sounds weird
But they're helping me move past all these things running through my head
I'll blame the mid-west and sleepy eyes
I'm not where I should be
I'm not what I could be
But I'm not who I was
Nostalgia gets the best of me
When I wake up it's the same day
It fucks me up
And makes me miss who I used to be
All I have are thoughts of me from back when I was 18
And my bony knees
Don't want it to be like my teenage years
I was naive and weak back then
Without much trouble on my shoulders
If I don't break
I won't know how to put myself back together
Nostalgia gets the best of me
When I wake up it's the same day
It fucks me up
And makes me miss who I used to be
All I have are thoughts of me from back when I was 18
And my bony knees
If you never break
You'll never know how to put yourself back together
Nostalgia gets the best of me
When I wake up it's the same day
It fucks me up
And makes me miss who I used to be
All I have are thoughts of me from back when I was 18
And my bony knees
This video breaks my heart no more warped tours:(
Need to see them one day, freaking love their music.
Just announced a tour! You’ve prob seen them by now lol
Nostalgia gets the best of me ...
ahhhh that was the best day ever, I'm in the video like five times singing at the top of my lungs
favorite song ever
I was like 20 or 21 and I’m in the video Jesus 2013 was such a beautiful year so much music changed my life
Same dude, can’t believe I made it to 30.
Oh, sleepy eyes and bony knees again. How original.
HA!
It was part of the concept of the album, the lead singer explained it on Facebook.
If you just knew the backround about this you wouldn't complain.
Same shitty comment complaining about sleepy eyes and bony knees. How original.
its called a fucking motif
the amazing guys
I'm glad that I was able to see them perform before dan had left
Same
saw them at mountain view. by far the best vibe of any concert ive been to
If you never break you'll never know how to put yourself back together❤
Finally a new emo band. I grew up in that early 2000's music scene so and I've been waiting for a band like this to come up,
Check out The Wonder Years. They sound quite similar
they aint emo and you are confused
ehhhhh... they're pop punk
fuuu listen to them, they once said "if you call us poppunk we quit"
facebook.com/realfriendsband/info
emo/pop punk
These guys are what Warp is all about.......if u never break you'll never know how to put yourself back together!
Perfect Video , fav. Band
so glad to discover this band! such heartfelt lyrics
seeing them for my birthday, couldn't ask for a better present
that is amazing oh my god. I'm going to the SWS and PTV world your concert for my birthday !:)
+Sasha B You have a great birthday present.
Somebody needs to tell these guys this has already. Many times. And much better.
Mall punk. Sad.
love the clip of Citizen in the middle, lol.
Dude. Yes.
Yes!!
Best band out right now. Kyle is one of the nicest guys ive ever met out of all the shows I've been to in my life.
I miss bands like these and when all I cared about was my tumblr and being 16 and finding a connection with a scene lmao pop punk 2010’s revival was the shit, real friends always got me with their lyrics and Dan’s stupid boney knee shit
I wish I had listened to you guys before Warped '13. I can't believe I missed out on such an amazing band while I was there, and Tinley Park too. :/
good song I love real friends
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Stop complaining about sleepy eyes and bony knees and start embracing it.
It's about the bassists depression. He wasn't sleeping or eating because of it. Not really something you want to embrace.
James Hack I know. I was just saying, for the people who keep complaining about it.
James Hack Really, I've been there before, that's part of why I like the music, it's easy for me to relate to. Not saying that we should celebrate depression, but it makes me feel better knowing there's someone that has felt the same way, you know? And feeling better is cool, because then I can get out and start enjoying life and stuff. (y)
James Hack I'd like to embrace it because it takes a lot for him to share his life like that so props for that.
I'll embrace.. your mom, at night...
im digging how the vocalist of like moths to flames was rocking a real friends shirt and these guys are rocking a LMTF shirt :D
wish scotland got a warped tour like america does, it looks amazing
Adam Lacey just UK as a whole would be sick! Instead of Warped UK just being in London when they do it
Dominic Brady so sad it ended
I crowd surfed at this show shit was so fun i wish i could go back
YES!!
Vocalist of Goliath and vocalist of The Zenith Passage in this. Rad
Ugh I'm gonna miss Warped Tour man 😣❤😭 Let's go out with a banger 2018
I'm in this video! I'm the girl with brown hair standing in front of the Real Friends merch table at 1:10. DOPE. :)
i just saw them. didnt really know about them before. but oh my god. they were one of the best bands ive ever seen. they were amazing definitely gonna be more into them now.
RIP real friends 😭😭
Seen these guys last night in Austin with mixtapes. By far the best show ever.
dude so many clips from this out from ventura warped it makes me so happy we are in this video holy crap
Damn, this hits hard in 2024. I was at Warped tour 2013
1M views! Congrats!
This will always be my favorite song by Real Friends.
just saw you at uk warped tour and you were amazing! x
this goes out to the friends I had in North Carolina...
We learned to put ourselves back together.
Not only is this my favourite band and one of my favourite songs, but I came out in this. So rad. n.n
Im ready to love you guys again...another real friends cover is on my list again
Dan seems like the most fun guy to be around haha.
Damn this song hits more and more the older I get
This makes my heart so happy.
LOS AMO PARA SIEMPRE.....ROCKER FOREVER :3 :D >_< lmL
i was 18 the first time i saw real friends and listened to their music, im now 26 and it hits so much more im crying lmao
I was 14. Now I’m 23 and yeah, hits so much more.
Such am amazing band. Saw them for the first time last week and it was honestly life changing.
The gopro on the head of the guitar is the trippiest thing ever
thanks for song, been following y'all since i saw u live at taco abaho in Savannah GA
Плачу на припеве
Sucks that Dan is no longer part of the band but I’ll still listen to this band. Warped Tours were always lit when they played. Good times.
Is Dan the vocalist?
@@berisiq He was
THIS MAKES ME RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY.
I love this song more than i love myself! And trust me i LOVE myself A LOT (-:
then why are you listening to real friends, its like all self hatred
You have to learn how to love yourself even when its tough
its good to see another band from the south suburbs doing well and HI DAN long time no talk
im so happy im getting to see yall in about 2 weeks
laceysoftball1 Hey you might like our song! Check out our new music video for "Harm's Way" :D
Ah I see myself! See you guys again in October.
Knuckle Puck...another band from Chicago!
Song still sick
amazing song. I'll always miss Dan :(
I'm hearing for the first time and loved it.
saw them live last night aye
Great Band, Great Song, Great Video!!!! Greetings From Latvia!
Freshman year throwback
Miss u
ily guys
Was so happy I got to see them perform at Warped that year!
The bassist is wearing an As Cities Burn tee. RESPECT.
One more week, holy shit I can not wait to see them and The Wonder Years!!
i love you guys omg
proud of you dudes
HI! from joliet IL!
Man, I remember when you guys released your music video for Bill and the Princess. That is a fantastic song! I'm glad you guys are still around and kickin'!
Siguiéndolos desde Chile!
i love you all
See Real Friends with Mixtapes, Forever Came Calling, Pentimento, Batten Down The Hatches, Cross Town Train in Long Branch, NJ on November 9th!
COME TO INDONESIA
yeah
jah bless jakarta
yasssss i hope so
NGAPAIN ANJENG
Saw them last night. I stage dived during floorboards. It was perfect.
soundwave 2014, get keen!!
please come to Japan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come to Puerto Rico!!
this makes me miss music festivals with bands
I love everything about real friends 3 the feel is real [: