School Friends

We started out as playground pals And with you I feel safe and sound BFFs, we cheerfully vowed You talk I listen I convince myself it's friendship What a wonderful companion I've found I envision us in our college days Your wedding where I'm an eager bridesmaid But soon, I'm shaken from my blissful daze When middle school comes and changes everything None of our classes coincide Your hallway's worlds apart from mine Our friendship disintegrates with time And I learn to put you out of mind I thought we'd be together until the end But we were nothing more than school friends Through the semesters we seem to get closer But what happens? What happens? When the school year is over We'll grow apart as we grow older That's what happens That's what happens And I'll lend you a listening ear But we won't even talk next year I know on you I never could depend Because we're only school friends In math class, you sit next to me And cheerily compliment my clothes We start to talk and notice that a Small flame grows We share lunchtime laughs Using each other as distractions But this time I know it'll never last and Our flame will soon dim Because there's no true connection And I'll be all alone again Because we're nothing more Than school friends Through the semesters we seem to get closer But what happens? What happens? When the school year is over We'll grow apart as we grow older That's what happens That's what happens And I'll lend you a listening ear But we won't even talk next year I know on you I never could depend Because we're only school friends I long for a best friend Someone who I can share my heart with Someone who really gets it Someone who I don't have to pretend with But I've only ever had school friends With superficial conversations I've had a major revelation That I've had few meaningful relationships We always start to fade And dissipate Until their time spent with me's Just a memory of a Distant day I have faith It won't always be this way And someone will be here to stay But it remains Through the semesters we seem to get closer But what happens? What happens? When the school year is over We'll grow apart as we grow older That's what happens That's what happens Through the semesters we seem to get closer But what happens? What happens? When the school year is over We'll grow apart as we grow older That's what happens That's what happens And I'll lend you a listening ear But we won't even talk next year There's no point in trying to make amends Since this will never ascend I know on you I never could depend Because we're only school friends