Just a friend

Verse 1

Tucked beneath your arms,

Cozy and safe from harm,

I’d doze into dreamland,

Believing you’d be the man

To pull me from the quicksand

Of life.

Chorus

And I buried my head in the sand,

To what was real, and what we’d pretend.

Then you’d say, “I’m just your friend,”

And I’d lie to myself again.

Verse 2

I fought for you to stay,

When you only wanted to go.

I thought if I could show

How much you meant to me,

Then my love would set us free.

Chorus

So I buried my head in the sand,

To what was real, and what we’d pretend.

Then you’d say, “I’m just your friend,”

And I’d lie to myself again.

Bridge

My anxiety would build,

Begging for my heart to be stilled.

I’d bury myself again,

Within your arms, away from harm,

Afraid of losing you.

Verse 3

But we were the quicksand,

And my weight sank us too deep.

It wasn’t what you planned,

I wasn’t what you wanted to keep.

Final Chorus (variation for climax)

And I buried my head in the sand,

To what was real, and what we’d pretend.

Then you’d say, “I’m just your friend,”

Until the day it was the end—

Because my love could not pretend.