Always The Friend (Radio Edit)

Описание: [Verse 1]
You called me up at midnight, tears fallin' down the line
Talkin' 'bout another boy who never treats you right
I listen like a diary, a secret kept in rhyme
But my own heart stays quiet, every single time

You laugh and say I’m perfect—just not the one you choose
A throne without a crown, a war I’m meant to lose
I'm the story in the margins, the name that never shows
Still here with open arms, though you’ll never know

[Chorus]
I'm the shoulder where you cry,
The echo when you sigh
The “brother” you can lean on
While he walks on by
I give the best of me, in pieces you don’t see
And still I stay, unseen
Always the friend
Never the dream

[Verse 2]
I text you “goodnight, sweet dreams”
You text him “I miss you bad”
I wonder if you’d notice if one day I just passed
I was your silent soldier, standing through your storms
But you only saw the shelter—not the fire keeping warm

You said, “You’re like a brother,”
My heart cracked with that sound
Still I held the door wide open
While love kept shutting down
I’m the punchline in the joke of being too kind
But I still can’t walk away—hope must be blind

[Chorus]
I'm the page you never read,
The words you never meant
The smile behind your sadness
The hand that never spent
A moment in your light,
Though I burn for you each night
Still I stay, unseen
Always the friend
Never the dream

[Bridge]
But maybe one day,
When your tears fall in the wrong hands again
You’ll turn around
And see who’s always been

[Final Chorus]
I’ll still be the place you run,
But maybe not just to cry
Maybe you'll see the stars
That’ve always lived inside these eyes
And if you turn to me,
And finally let it be
Then maybe, just maybe
The friend becomes the dream

[Outro]
But until that day
I'll hold my breath between the scenes
Playing my part in silence
In a love that only leans
Always the friend…
But still I dream