Can We Just Be Friends?

I called you from a payphone
just to hear your voice.
I’ve come so far away from you
but there wasn’t much a choice.

I didn’t want to leave,
but with what I have to say,
we’ll both just end up hurting
so I know that I can’t stay.

I watched the sunset ‘cross the harbour,
with a melancholy stare,
and reached out for your hand
although I knew it wasn’t there.

I didn’t want to think it,
but as I travelled every mile,
there was always something waiting
to remind me of your smile.

And the road keeps winding on, and on and on.
I wonder if you think about me
even though I’m gone.
And the minutes crawl,
goddamn it all,
what if this never ends?
Those five words will haunt me ’til the end,
“Can we just be friends?”

I heard a song play on the radio
and I whispered every word,
lyrics forming a complex spell
to make reality less absurd.

I didn’t want to remember
where I’d heard those words before.
But I’d give damn near anything
for you to whisper them once more.

And the road keeps winding on, and on and on.
I wonder if you think about me
even though I’m gone.
And the minutes crawl,
goddamn it all,
what if this never ends?
The answer’s waiting just around the bend,
But can we just be friends?

If I
could say what’s really weighing on my mind,
then I
wouldn’t be so lost enough to have to find.
But I
must find the space that I require to unwind.
Let go…
Just let me go…

I felt a warm breeze through the window,
and inhaled the sweetest scent,
and knew that it had followed
every place that I had went.

I didn’t want to admit it,
but it smelled of salty shores–
of firsts, of wonder and honesty–
and I knew that it was yours.

And the road keeps winding on, and on and on.
I wonder if you think about me
even though I’m gone.
And the minutes crawl,
goddamn it all,
what if this never ends?
Don’t know if I’ll be homeward bound again,
but can we just be friends?
Oo-oooo…
I miss you, so I guess I’ll just pretend,
that we can just be friends.
Let’s just be friends.