will you be my friend

we're a mother at a funeral

we're a child at the cross

we're a worker with the food stamp

we're a poet with an empty cost

we're a surgeon at the table

we're a drinker with the bends

we're a black man in an all white town

and we're getting lost in the same trends

so will you be my friend?

will you be my friend?

will you be my friend?

cause alone is only us we lose again

we're the chicken at the egg farm

we're the waitress at the club

we're the trees we like to climb down

we're the climate and we're heating up

we're the people at the party

we're the fans who catch the ball

we're the immigrants from which we're all born

and we're the planners who can't find a resolve

so will you be my friend?

will you be my friend?

will you be my friend?

cause alone is only us we lose again

cause alone is only us we lose again

cause alone is only us

we're the soldier on his last breath

we're the refugee at sea

we're the widow that the bombs left

we're the queer child looking up at me

we're the pedals of the lily

we're the ripples of the marsh

we're the atoms up in saturn

we're the song playing in the stars

so will you be my friend?

will you be my friend?

will you be my friend?

cause alone is only us we lose again