Come To Be My Friend [Shaw/Blades featuring Tommy Shaw]

Come To Be My Friend
Written by Tommy Shaw & Jack Blades
Lead Vocals by Jack Blades

I don't know what happened
I only know what she wants me to see
I don't know how I got here
I only know just what she burns inside of me

There's no use in pretending
As she rises from the ashes and then
Writes a new happy ending
Riding off into the sunset again

How can I lay me down to sleep
When a part of me is incomplete
Whoa oh

Guide me safely through the night
Everything gonna be all right
Oh yeah

Now here we are
Have you come to be my friend
What pretty pictures
You have dancing in my head

Take what's been given
Forget what has been said
Now here we are
Have you come to be
Come to be my friend

It all happened so easy
She just loved to let me
Lick all the spoons

I even thought I was crazy
She just laughed and kept on
Kissing my wounds

Now all the king's horses
Little green men
Can't figure out how to
Put me together again
Whoa oh

Cracks in the window
Holes in my soul
How was I to know she was trouble
If I hadn't been told

Now here we are
Have you come to be my friend
What pretty pictures
You have dancing in my head

Take what's been given
Forget what has been said
Now here we are
Have you come to be
Come to be my friend
Maybe you
Maybe I
Maybe someday we'll look it in the eye

Get you good, get you now
Gonna get you 'till you crying out loud

Dig deep, dig wide
Dig it deep down dirty inside

Good luck, good life
Maybe someday I'll see you on the outside
See you on the outside
Come on baby, won't you dig it down deep and wide

Now here we are
Have you come to be my friend
What pretty pictures
You have dancing in my head
Take what's been given
Forget what has been said

Now here we are
Have you come to be
Come to be my friend
Come to be my friend
Come to be my friend

It all happened so easy

Interpretation

I don't really know who she is anymore. It's like she is putting on a façade around me. Still, I love her and can't get her off my mind. As she "rises from the ashes" (like a phoenix), deciding to start a new life with new dreams, she leaves, and I'm left confused.  I can't sleep knowing she's gone. I hope she's OK and having a good life, but I'd like to see her again. I need a friend right now.