He tells her she's the one he wants,
He tells her what's inside.
He tells her how he feels about her
And wants to know what's right.

She stares at him with a blank face,
Not knowing what to do,
She stares at a close friend,
And sees a dream inside him too.

She has no words,
Can't speak her mind,
She knows that to her thoughts,
He's deaf and blind.

She knows she'll never be able,
To feel the same way for him,
She knows the ideas forming in her mind,
Are just a fancy whim,
Trying to please him,
Cuz she loves him in a way he never knew,
A stronger friendship than theirs
Have only few.

The truth she knows,
Though it never shows,
He would take over her life,
And bring her only grief and strife.

He could never care for her,
The way she would want him to,
As she listens to "Lean on Me"
She knows he wouldn't be able to pull her through
All the crap going on in her life,
It would just be like walking into another knife.

She doesn't want to hurt him,
Even though she thinks,
"Deal with it, get over it,
You'll soon learn life stinks."

Maybe she's been through so much,
Her heart has become stone,
But she has felt it torn apart,
And she has felt alone.