Only A Friend Lyrics - Picture House

(browne/maitland/glenister) 

You have all you want 

Your shadow stands so tall 

You can't see over it 

And it's what you need 

There's no-one going to 

Stop you from believing it 

And so the game begins 

Watching the china spin 

Walking on gilded pins 

(chorus) 

Become more than a mother's son 

Who jumped the blocks before the gun 

Disturbed the silent sun I know 

Only a friend would know 

And though you think it just don't show 

Only a friend would notice 

Only a friend would know 

When you're getting down 

Remember all the things 

We used to dream about 

How you'd leave this town 

And be the only thing they'd talk about 

There's something to be said 

For laying down and playing dead 

Why don't you live instead 

(chorus)