opened my eyes with love and joy
a smile for life to start this boy
love and hope, I thought would stay
grew to youth with nothing to say
hope was gone friends were none
I'd run for hours a lonely son
escaped the drugs from people near
but couldn't outrun the taste of beer
then through a glass, I caught a glance
a person blurred was life a chance

To show a heart that wasn't rough

this one now is hope for me
the first I call a friend to be

doubt and pain you feel so well
then focused on my living hell
brought me close with no remorse
watched me fall and loudly curse
I come to you in times of grief
hours I steal just like a thief
when I need you're always there
to open your heart and truly care

to nurse me through times so tough

you are the one that I can be
sincere and true to lonely me
to give to you I know not what
as from my heart, I'd give the lot
but sure as stars are in the sky
I found in you a reason why

to call you friend is not enough

to show a heart that wasn't rough
to nurse me through times so tough

to call you friend is not enough