[Verse 1 - Male Rap]
You packed that suitcase in my kitchen
Half your makeup still in drawers
Said you’re tired of my distance
And my midnight disappearing doors
I was chasing ego
Scrolling
Leaving every message seen
You were in the bed we chosen
Talking to the ceiling
Not to me
Regret hits heavy in the hallway
Seeing your toothbrush by the sink
Should’ve answered when you called me
Should’ve said what I really think
[Verse 2 - Female Vocal]
You said
“relax
I’m just busy”
But your phone lit up at 3
Different name
Same little secrets
That you never shared with me
I kept shrinking to be perfect
Softly asking
“Is this fine?”
You kept laughing like it’s nothing
While I lost my sense of time
Sadness shaking in my hands now
Driving past our corner store
Every song sounds like an answer
To a question you ignored
[Chorus - Both]
Can we just be friends
When my heart still runs to you
When your hoodie’s on my chair
And my perfume’s on your room
Saying “this is for the best”
But it burns when silence ends
How we go from almost forever
To strangers calling each other “friends”
(oh, friends)
[Verse 3 - Male Rap]
You say cheating like it’s simple
I say lonely like a threat
I was scared of how you knew me
So I lied instead of wept
Anger pouring through your voicemail
Every word a shattered glass
But I hear the hurt behind it
All the chances that I passed
I loved you in my language
Broken
Twisted
Hard to read
Guess my pride became a prison
You were begging to be freed
[Verse 4 - Female Vocal]
I threw your jacket on the driveway
Watched the rain soak every stitch
Cursed your name into the night air
Like it’d fix what you had fixed
Underneath the sharp accusations
Is a softer
Smaller truth
I was terrified of endings
So I clung too hard to you
Love is cruel in different costumes
Sometimes begging
Sometimes bruised
I still see the boy I fell for
Behind the man that I refused
[Chorus - Both]
Can we just be friends
When your touch still lives in mine
When I smell you in my pillow
Every lonely
Tired night
Saying “this is for the best”
While we both pretend it mends
How we go from almost forever
To strangers calling each other “friends”
[Bridge - Duet]
Maybe in another life
We don’t learn the hard way
You don’t run from feeling deep
I don’t beg you just to stay
You don’t scroll through other faces
I don’t swallow every tear
We don’t break to find our boundaries
We just hold what’s really here
(oh, what’s really here)
[Chorus - Both]
Can we just be friends
When our songs still sound like “us”
When your laugh stays in my kitchen
When my key still fits your lock
Maybe someday we’ll be fine
Sit and talk like story ends
But today it’s love and anger
Too much weight to just be friends
[Outro - Female Vocal + Male Ad-libs]
So I’ll block your number
(until I don’t)
I’ll avoid our places
(til it’s old)
If we ever meet as strangers
On some quiet weekend
We can smile and say “it’s good to see you”
And maybe then… be friends