Don't use that word friend with me

if you don't know what it means to me

don't use that word friend with me

if you really are my enemy

don't speak the word so solemnly

speaking it with enmity


don't use that word friend with me

if you don't know what it means


it was underneath an apple tree

i roused you on your mother's knee

and you rose to kiss and say to me

all those secret words you made for me

in earnest wonder I did stray

into you and far away

the hips that sing and a heart that rings

are calling to me every day


so don't use that word friend with me

if you don't know what it means to me

don't use that word friend with me

if you don't know what it means


i walked you past the violinists

and told you all my favourite things

and tripped so soft and steadily

one constant step ahead of me

you placed a seal upon my heart

and you slowly pulled us both apart

and the end came slow and achingly

and there was one for you and one for me


so don't use that word friend with me

if you don't know what it means to me

don't use that word friend with me

if you don't know what it means


you gave me cause beneath the pines

pulling yourself complete in line

and what a wonder you turned out to be

when you told me you would wait for me

but I found you out through black and look

on a path I very seldom took

and you were sworn to secrecy

the lover of my enemy


so don't use that word friend with me

if you don't know what it means to me

don't use that word friend with me

if you don't know what it means