I feel like your boyfriend
Stuck in the body of your best friend
Even when we hang out
You say to me
All these hurtful things
Without thinking
Maybe if I wasn’t in love
It would be back like it was
Before we were friends

And every night I say to you
Everything but what i want to
Just to hear your voice is not enough
Cause i’m in love more than you’ll ever know
More than I can bear to show

I shouldn’t say stuff like this
But I talk this way, when I’m pissed
And I still don’t understand
Why I feel this way
When all you say
Is that we are only friends
But is that all we’ll ever be?

And every night I say to you
Everything but what i want to
Just to hear your voice is not enough
Cause i’m in love more than you’ll ever know
More than I can bear to show

Joke about getting married when were 38
I don’t think it’s funny,
Cause we’ve never even had a date
I don’t want to sound creepy when I tell you
How much I really want to
Kiss you, Hold you
And tell you
How much i love you
Cause I do
It is true

And every night I say to you
Everything but what i want to
Just to hear your voice is not enough
Cause i’m in love more than you’ll ever know
More than I can bear to show


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    realy powerful song, and i think even one of these guys' best. in case anyone is too dumb to figure out whats going on in this song, the guy is totaly in love with his best, but she can't see them as anything but freinds. so, as a way of saying what he thinks he can never say to her, he says it in a song. thats what i see it as. really like the song, and hope to hear some of this stuff soon...

    thecellistson September 13, 2002   Link

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