FLESHFRIEND

Words and music copyright ©1980 by Howard Ashby Kranz

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I saw you passing with someone; I stopped and talked with you.

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Your eyes denied what mine recalled: the things that seemed so true.

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And I could not stand before you; not to touch is to pretend:

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You don’t want to be my lover, but your body is my friend.

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We talked a while of our ideals, of plans we would not share.

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We talked of liberation, and of what was in the air.

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And I can’t believe we’re broken, even though love’s at an end:

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You don’t want to be my lover,but your body is my friend.

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Oh, oh no, end the madness!

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I was not meant to be this way.

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It’s a funny pain to be disjunct,to be half while you are one.

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And I want you to be what you are, and to do what must be done.

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But there’s a love that even love can’t break, and a tie that will can’t bend.

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You don’t want to be my lover, but your body is my friend.