Lyrics to
Friends

This version of Friends was released by Donna Summer in 1974.

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In our childhoods days
Together we would play
People said we were inseparable

Like a brother then
My protective friend
He would always take good care of me

Friends that’s what we are just
Friends no more or less oh
Here we are sharing so much fun
Friends why can’t he see that I want him
To be more than my friend

Years have come and gone
Still our friendship’s strong
Now he’s more than just the boy next door

I’m in love with him
Guess I’ve always been
He doesn’t know he’s all I’m living for

Friends that’s all we are just
Friends so near yet so far from love
And oh the joy that he can bring
Friends why can’t he see that I want him
To be more than my friend

I’d like to tell him that I need him bad
But I’m afraid if I do I might lose
The only friend that I have

Friends that’s all we are just
Friends so near yet so far from love and thus
We’ll always remain friends
Friends why can’t he see that I want us
To be more than just friends

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About Lyrics and Friends by Donna Summer

The lyrics for Friends are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Donna Summer. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Friends have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Friends - Donna Summer and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Friends by Donna Summer in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Friends" means the words set to the music of Friends, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Donna Summer. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Friends and the lyrics to Friends are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Donna Summer who came here looking just for the lyrics to Friends, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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