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I Built a Friend

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I Built a Friend

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I built a friend with three pieces of plastic and a pen

I made him on the table in the den

I gave him my old cellphone for a head

For a head

And we spent holidays in my house

And we left presents in the stocking

And we bought bolts and things and strings and a new watch

That's what he got

And we had so much fun together

We knew we'd be friends forever

And we had so much fun together

We had so much fun

Then I left for college in september

And we wept cause we can't be together

So I kept pictures to remember my old friend

My old friend

Then I met this girl at graduation

And forget my oldest creation

And I guess I'll see him next vacation

Send my best, I send my best

And we had so much fun together

We knew we'd be friends forever

And we had so much fun together

We had so much fun

I came home to find him on the table with a note

Scribbled out in pencil and he wrote

That he just wasn't stable all alone

All alone

Next to him, an empty glass of water that he spilled

All over the body that I built

It fizzled and it popped and then it killed

And then it killed

And we had so much fun together

We thought we'd be friends forever

And we had so much fun together

We had so much fun

I built a friend

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