Your best friend, tell me, how can this be That I mean nothin' more to you Lord, why you mean the world to me Your best friend, the one you came cryin' to When some girl has let you down Is that all I'll ever mean to you Doesn't it strike you so strange That I'm always free Any time at all That you can think to call on me Now if you can read between the lines When I'm talkin' to you, yeah, yeah You'll find I'll say one word for her But for myself I will say two After this And all the little extra things you do You'll see that your best friend Is the one that's madly in love with you I don't wanna be your best friend no more, baby It's time for me to tell you that I love you The only reason why I stuck by you Was because there was no other way to get to you I don't wanna be your best friend no more, baby If anything, I got to be your lover