We Can’t Be Friends

We try to pretend that love didn’t burn

Through every word we say

But the truth, it’s always there

In the silence

We sit in the same old café

Sharing stories from yesterday

You laugh like it don’t hurt inside

But I see the truth in your tired eyes

You stir your coffee, I sip my wine

Pretending the past was never mine

But baby, love like this don’t end

And no, we can’t just play pretend

We can’t be friends

Not with that kind of history

When your name still echoes

Through the soul of me

We had fire, now we’re just smoking the wind

No, darling, we can’t be friends

We danced through storms and midnight skies

Wrote our names across the sky

But somewhere between the tears and time

We lost the rhythm, lost the rhyme

I tried to call you just last June

Hung up when I heard that tune

The one we danced to slow and close

The ghost of love that hurts the most

We can’t be friends

Not when I still dream of you

When your memory plays

Like a fading blues

You’re not just someone I once knew

No, we can’t be friends

It just ain’t true

Your hand across the table

Wishing I was still able

To hold you without falling again

But love like ours don’t ever end

Maybe in another life

Where hearts don’t break in time

We’ll meet as strangers, fall again

But in this one, we can’t be friends

We can’t be friends

Not when my heart won’t lie

When I still hear your voice

Blessing every goodbye

Too much love to pretend

No, darling, this can’t be how it ends

Some goodbyes

Aren’t meant to be gentle

They’re meant to be final