[00:24.23](Chali 2na) [00:28.35]Yo, this is a lesson in friendship [00:31.03]The depths of a kinship [00:33.09]What women and men begin with, and then slip [00:36.15]My pen drips [00:37.08]As I scribble my thoughts on thin strips [00:39.14]Of emotion [00:40.20]A fraction, seduction, attraction [00:43.32]Eruption of passion [00:44.63]Corrupts if a lasted friendship's involved [00:47.32]But love to cross the line [00:48.75]But that's why we built these walls [00:50.25]We been friends for a long time, a very close friend of mine [00:53.06]Love you like you was mine, but respect a thin line [00:55.68]I love you like you was mine, think about you all the time [00:58.30]Very close friend of mine, but respect a thin line [01:01.23](Akil) [01:02.04]Opposite's attract [01:02.42]When the female and male come in contact [01:05.48]Sticky situation in fact [01:06.91]Tryin not to let the feelings catch [01:08.78]But there's a thin line between both of y'all [01:11.09]So you respect that [01:12.40]And entertain the idea, but get brought back [01:14.65]To reality, and could you really live with that? [01:18.14]Decision, based on intuition [01:20.14]You love and keep your distance [01:21.76]Hug and kiss in friendship [01:23.07](Marc 7) [01:24.07]An ongoing kinship, we was people to begin with [01:25.57]Disrespect was not intended [01:26.44]But your feelings sparked the sentence [01:28.44]Sometimes you're too intense in your quest to invent [01:31.00]The perfect man, please understand, my rhyme is your repent [01:33.74](Soup) [01:34.49]We been friends for a long time, a very close friend of mine [01:36.80]Love you like you was mine, but respect a thin line [01:39.42]I love you like you was mine, think about you all the time [01:42.11]Very close friend of mine, but respect a thin line [01:44.85]We been friends for a long time, a very close friend of mine [01:47.53]Love you like you was mine, but respect a thin line [01:50.22]I love you like you was mine, think about you all the time [01:52.96]Very close friend of mine, but respect a thin line [01:56.89]Man, too bad that we became friends first [01:58.45]I'm not on expert on how relationships should work [02:00.39]But, (echos) from the minute it as known [02:03.88]It changed the whole tone on how we spoke on the phone [02:06.57]Yo, it was cool but I felt it wasn't enough [02:09.56]And I was stuck when your moms would pick it up [02:12.49]Over you, all my buddies would swoon [02:14.55]But I felt we were in tune, you let me up in your room. (Damn) [02:18.36]But to me girl, you're still off limits [02:20.86]No matter all the times that I hinted (Yo, whatchu doin after this?) [02:25.35]Infactuation was authentic, but yo I just pretended [02:27.53]So I wouldn't lose the friendship [02:28.91]Maybe, I should spill all my guts [02:31.28]Or write a letter, then tear it up [02:34.15]Or do a song, just to say what's up [02:36.39]I want ... just ... a touch [02:38.45]We been friends for a long time, a very close friend of mine [02:42.07]Love you like you was mine, but respect a thin line [02:44.88]I love you like you was mine, think about you all the time [02:47.69]Very close friend of mine, but respect a thin line [02:50.25]We been friends for a long time, a very close friend of mine [02:53.24]Love you like you was mine, but respect a thin line [02:55.80]I love you like you was mine, think about you all the time [02:58.61]Very close friend of mine, but respect a thin line [03:02.17] [03:07.47](Nelly Furtado) [03:08.28]I can't do this anymore [03:09.34]See my heart just spills out when you walk in the door [03:11.84]Friendship turns into lust and this only tip [03:14.33]That I can't comprehend even if I knew it [03:17.39]Can't do justice to these things that I'm feeling [03:20.14]You got someone else, don't wanna be caught stealing [03:22.94]Hell if she knew she would never leave us alone [03:26.00]In the roo-ooo-ooom [03:26.75](Chali 2na) [03:28.25]This was a lesson in friendship [03:30.93]I stress in this sentence [03:32.93]Should women and men be friends first? [03:35.17]And then slip? [03:36.24]My pen drips as I scribble my thoughts on thin strips [03:39.11]Of devotion [03:39.61](Akil) [03:40.54]Opposites attract [03:40.92]And best friends make a perfect match [03:43.66]If you only knew that [03:45.10]Once you cross, ain't no turning back [03:47.28]The minute you let him in it and he hit that [03:49.90]That's that [03:50.59](Marc 7) [03:51.40]We was people to begin with, but you was too relentless [03:53.46]Jeporidizing kinship, respect is intended [03:57.02]Resolve is my intent [03:58.58]While we got it in [03:59.82]I'm trying to salvage a friendship [04:01.20]We been friends for a long time, a very close friend of mine [04:04.00]Love you like you was mine, but respect a thin line [04:06.62]I love you like you was mine, think about you all the time [04:09.43]Very close friend of mine, but respect a thin line [04:11.93]We been friends for a long time, a very close friend of mine [04:14.80]Love you like you was mine, but respect a thin line [04:17.54]I love you like you was mine, think about you all the time [04:20.35]Very close friend of mine, but respect a thin line