Verse 1AEA friend?s not a cheap little phony creep
GD
Or a jerk trying to make a deal
AEA friend is a person who, most of all,
G /AD
Cares about what you feel;
AD
And nothing is harder
ADD /E
Than learning a friend isn?t real
AEA friend sends notes back and forth all day
Em7D /A
And doesn?t care that you can?t spell
AEA friend knows you?ve got a crush on your teacher,
Em7D /A
But a friend would never tell
ADA friend?s outside waiting
AD
The minute you both hear the bell
ChorusEEA
And if your heart is always breaking
AEEA
Cause the world is just not fair
AC#m
When you?re at your worst
F#mD
Your friend?s the first one there
ACBm7
Giving you something to lean on
E7
And that?s what it means to be a friend
A , E/A, G /A, D/A, A , E/A, G /ADVerse 2AEA friend won?t smoke when she?s in your room
GD
Or laugh at the poems you write
AEA friend won?t go start kissing your brother
GD
The minute that you?re out of sight
ADA friend is the person
A /C#D
You call sixteen times every night
ChorusEEAA
And if your heart is always breaking
EEAA
And you want to run and hide
C#m
When your hope is gone
F#mD
Your friend is on your side
ACBm7
If someone moves in ?round the corner
ACBm7
And you want to show him you care
ACBm7A
So you give him all your last month of vacation
B7 E9#5
And all of the time you can spare
AB7B7
But then, on the first day of classes
AF
He acts like you?re not even there,
DA
Then he doesn?t know?
DA
He doesn?t know!
AABm
He?ll never know what it means
E7
To be
AE , G , D , F/A, Dsus2 , A
a friend
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