I was sixteen

Going on twenty-one

I called it a relationship

You called it having fun



We were best friends

Doing things kids do

And no matter what you'd like to think

We were lovers too



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Boys will be boys

If they are left to their own devices

Boys will be boys

But often they make sacrifices

Men will be men will be men will be men

Afraid of being boys



We shared all our secrets

'Round an open fire

And wrestled with each other

As we wrestled with desire



We walked along together

'Til you ran off in fright

And me, I took a left

And you, you took a right



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Sometimes you're too young to know

Some things you just outgrow

But I know what I felt for you

And it must have scared the hell out of you



Now we are two grown men

Two very different lives

I'm happy with my lover

You seem happy with your wife



We are two grown men

Trying to pretend

That nothing ever happened

That we were only friends



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