Best Friends Forever

Where are those warm Ray Bradbury nights?
High school, your future, my dear past
I sang to death but you said that it was about life

Where did your Johnny Walker Black dreams go?
You’re young, 18, alcohol is in your veins
I showed you Elliott Smith before she drove you home

But we were best friends then
Won’t we be best friends forever?

Where did you put your red and white shirt?
Has it changed or do you still treasure it?
Don’t you really recognize the things that were your life?
I tried to bring you back, but I failed: I got mad

Do you still keep my birthday wish?
The saddest prelude to my most hurtful tears
To the ocean between Spain and Brazil

‘Cause we were best friends someday
Won’t we be best friends forever?

I learnt to live with sadness
When I lost you
I really don’t know
If that’s a triumph or a failure

Adultness drove us far, far apart
Ten light years in a blink of an eye

There’s a wall between every word we say
Aren’t we in a fratricidal game?

We were best friends once
But I fucked up, and I think we’re nothing now