We Can't Be Friends - ModeMusic

“We Can’t Be Friends” is a song about two people who still love each other, but know friendship will never be enough. The connection runs too deep, the memories remain too close, and every attempt to pretend only brings the feelings back. Sometimes love does not end because the feelings disappear. Sometimes two people walk away because staying close would hurt even more. This song lives in the painful space between holding on and letting go, where goodbye feels necessary, yet never feels right. For anyone who has ever had to lose someone they still loved, not because the love was gone, but because love alone was no longer enough. LYRICS We Can't Be Friends Verse 1 we used to laugh at nothing 2am felt like home your hand fit in mine like it had always known we traced dreams on ceilings made plans we outgrew funny how forever got smaller with you Pre-chorus we tried to play it safe call it what it isn’t but every word we say keeps turning into missing Chorus we can’t be friends not with this fire still alive not when your name still sounds like something I can’t leave behind we can’t pretend like we don’t feel the way we do we’re standing at the edge of what we know we’ll never choose so we walk away again like strangers in the end no, we can’t be friends Verse 2 we learned each other’s silence every hidden scar you know all my secrets I know who you are and that’s what makes it harder to let go like this how do you forget someone who taught you how to exist Pre-chorus we tried to draw a line but hearts don’t listen every “I’m alright” just sounds like something missing Chorus we can’t be friends not with this fire still alive not when your eyes still hold me like I never said goodbye we can’t pretend like we don’t feel the way we do we’re caught between the almost and the life we never choose so we walk away again like strangers in the end no, we can’t be friends Bridge maybe in another life we don’t have to let go maybe love don’t come with timing we don’t control but here we are, too close, too far too much we can’t defend loving you is everything and why this has to end Final chorus we can’t be friends not when my heart still says your name not when goodbye still feels like losing you all over again we can’t pretend this was ever something small we had everything together now we get to have none at all so we walk away again before we break and bend no, we can’t be friends Outro if love was all we needed we’d never have to end but loving you is why we can’t be friends