friends do do do dum friends do do do dum friends i guess you want to know why i ve got to go knowing how i feel about ya i ve been gone about singing my heart out it s hard to fight this feeling feeling inside girl i cannot do what i want to do mama said that we re moving moving too fast if we hold onto and if love is true i know the day will finally come around let s be friends cause i don t want to hurt you let s be friends i don t want to let you down let s be friends nah girl i don t want to hurt you lets be friends i don t want to let you down girl if let me explain why we must refrain why we can t give in we can only just be friends if you only knew what i m going through i really want you but i can t stick around girl i cannot do what i want to do papa said that we re we re moving too fast if we hold onto and if love is true i know the day will come but in the meantime let s be friends i don t want to hurt you let s be friends i don t want to let you down let s be friends i don t want to hurt you no  you know you re the only one for me girl you re the only one i need girl won t you be my friend we can work it out let s be friends let s be friends it s so hard to turn love down friends i just can t stick around friends no girl don t you wanna be my friend i don t want to let you down girl i know how you feel about me and i m not knocking the way you feel but as you can see baby time is not on our side and for that reason we can t be together but i can assure you one day we will prove them all wrong but in the meantime love let s just walk away from here and be friends soon enough it will be just you and me ooh ooh hope we can work it out we can work it out 