I built a friend
with three pieces of plastic and a pen
I made him on the table in the dim
I gave him my old cellphone for a head,
for a head
And we spent
holidays at my house and we left
Presents in the stocking
and we bought
Bolton things and new 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 and 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 knew we'd be friends forever
And we had so much fun together
We had so much fun
I built a friend.
