Just Good Friends

Drawing back the curtains

Sluggish city daylight in the afternoon

Here's that special silence

Just before you walk out of the hotel room

Each time we're so close I assume

That we'll never be again

Oh how long can we pretend

That we're just good friends

A casual affair is all that you can spare

From your emotional change

A calendar of meetings

Strangers on the street

The best we ever arrange

Now I just can't stand all the pain

All the constant make and mend

How long must we pretend

That we're just good friends

I gave you my devotion

Hiding nothing up my sleeve

If I walked clean out of your life

Would you even notice me leave

So much tangled-up emotion

Should I stay or should I go

If I walked clean out of your life

How long would it take you know

Are we such good friends

You used to say 'I love you'

You used to say 'You make me

Feel alive and young'

Now we're just a habit a flavour

One a month

To titillate your tongue

How sordid this has become

As the means approach the end

Oh how long can we pretend

That we're still good friends