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Description
An awkward closeness borrowed from friendship: warmth nearby, and yet it's as if everything is on pause. Words are whispered so quietly that all you can do is watch - with your eyes, your lips, the edge of your palm; everything important happens outside the official rules. The chorus works like a half-whispered confession: you know there will be pain, but you play along anyway - because the forbidden always tastes sweeter.
There is also a pinch of self-irony: “friends don't” sounds like a prohibition, then like an excuse. For those nights when you want to be close without any guarantees - and give in a little to your own weakness.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Tell me what you want
I'll tell you what you wanna hear
I'll take the pain to remain in your atmosphere
No one has to know
Where you ended up tonight
Your secret is as safe as when you're by my side
You can call it what you want to
You can call it what you need
But friends don't know you like this
Talk with their eyes, stare at your lips
And friends don't touch you like this
Get with someone to make you jealous
I know, I know it's gonna hurt me when you go
I know, I know, I'm still gonna let you come and do what friends don't
Written on your face
Everything you wanna say
And you tell me that you love me but not that way
And I will never make
You take responsibility
I'd bleed until I'm empty
If it means you won't resent me
But friends don't know you like this
Talk with their eyes, stare at your lips
And friends don't touch you like this
Get with someone to make you jealous
I know, I know it's gonna hurt me when you go
I know, I know, I'm still gonna let you come and do what friends don't
Oh, what friends don't, oh
Every glance you steal, every chance you get
Every long goodbye with you on my chest
Is the proof I need that it's not just in my head
Friends don't know you like this
Talk with their eyes, stare at your lips
And friends don't touch you like this
Get with someone to make you jealous
I know, I know it's gonna hurt me when you go
I know, I know, I'm still gonna let you come and do what friends don't
Oh, what friends don't
Mm