Song Description

A song about a guy whose best friend - a woman - is getting involved with another guy. He tries to do the right thing and be supportive - but has realized that he feels more than friendship for her.

Lyrics

All alone at night in a picture tube wasteland
Sittin' pickin' on an old guitar
Had it all but he through it out the window
Strummin' hard on his axe he's a neophyte czar

The girls they like him cuz he got charisma
They all wanna see him - all but Her
Well she's with the wrong man - he can feel it in his breastbone
Thinks it might change but he's never quite sure

And he feels so jealous
And he feels so alone
But he don't wanna tell her
Cuz he knows it would be wrong
Goes out ev'ry weekend
Another prop to hold on
Another girl to help forget her
Another hurtin' old song (2x)

He's known her for a long time now
And he's tried many times to get her out of his mind ...
But when she call him up he's a puppet on a string
Wanna tell he can't see her but the words won't come

Hard for a man to be a friend to a woman
When the smile in her eye make his blood run hot
She don't know she teasin' but it hurts all the same
She'll be his best friend but take another man's name ...

She's a pirate - she's taken the gleam from his eye
Makes his heart pound hard then she back right off
When he's with another girl all he sees is her face
Cause she's young and she's wild - moves with nasty grace