just good friends

• michael jackson'in bad albumunden bir parca. stevie wonder ile duettir.
  
  [stevie]
  na na na-na na na na nah!
  [michael]
  hoo hoo!
  dancin'-hee!
  doggone lover!
  [stevie]
  c'mon boy
  
  [michael]
  i watched you on the floor
  cheek to cheek
  she's getting to you
  you didn't see-her eyes on me-no
  she looked right through you
  (before you make)
  before you make
  (a big mistake)
  remember
  that looks can fool you babe, hee!
  
  there's something i would sure appreciate
  (if you can keep a secret)
  
  baby loves me
  but she never shows she cares
  (no, you won't see her kiss and hug me)
  baby loves me
  no she acts like i'm not there
  (that doesn't mean she doesn't love me-ooo)
  
  if they ask her
  tell 'em that we're just good friends...
  dah! chika-chika-chika-ah!
  just good friends...
  ah! chika-chika-ah!
  ooo
  (doot-do-do-doo...)
  hee! aaow!
  just good friends...
  
  [stevie]
  you better take advice
  never trust-first impressions
  i tried to hide this affair
  from their suspicions
  
  so even if she's asking you to stay
  you better know where you stand
  (you better know where you stand)
  
  baby loves me
  though she never shows she cares
  (no, you won't see her kiss and hug me)
  my baby loves me
  though she acts like i'm not there
  (that doesn't mean she doesn't love me-ooo)
  
  now if they ask you
  jus' tell 'em that we're just good friends...
  
  yes... just good friends
  (just good friends...)
  root-do-do-do...
  (doot-do-do-do...)
  just good friends...
  
  [michael]
  listen up, hee... we've got a problem here
  [stevie]
  i can see the signs
  [michael]
  i guess the lady
  [both]
  is still making up her mind
  (mind)
  (say we're just good friends)
  
  [stevie]
  baby loves me
  though she never shows she cares
  (never shows she cares)
  no you won't see her kiss and hug me
  (just good friends)
  (my baby loves me)
  
  [michael]
  though she acts like i'm not there
  you doggone lover, hee...
  [stevie]
  aaow!
  (doot-do-do-doo...)
  
  don't you wanna know? my baby loves me
  though she never shows she cares
  (never shows she cares)
  
  [michael]
  hee! hee!
  [stevie]
  she doesn't kiss and hug me
  (just good friends)
  
  [michael]
  my baby loves me
  she love me, she love me,
  hee! hee! hee! hoo! hoo!
  (doot-do-do-doo)
  (never shows she cares)...
• fish'in internal exile albumunden sadece arkadasiz sarkisi ve de sozleri soyle:
  
  just good friends
  
  (dick/usher/boult/simmonds)
  
  there's something i want to ask you
  before it's too late,
  it's been on my mind since the first time we met
  it scares me now more, now there's more at stake,
  it seems we're so close yet so far away.
  
  could you turn me down gently would i
  be out of order,
  if i declared my true feelings or do i
  act out the part,
  of the father confessor of the shoulder to cry on
  we're always so close yet so far away
  
  chorus: what would you do if i got down
  on my knees to you
  would you hold it against me,
  would you stand in line?
  what would you do if i
  opened my heart to you,
  would i be another who's wasting his time,
  darling are we just good friends?
  
  do i really need to ask you
  i'm sure that you know by now,
  do we just play a game where we try to pretend,
  that all that's between us is all that's between us,
  and all we can rely on is just being good friends.
  
  (chorus)
  
  so are we left to chance meetings,
  is that all we can depend on?
  resigned to raise glasses in anonymous cafes,
  reciting our failures as if we needed
  proof or regret,
  over what might have
  and what should have been, darling, are we just good friends?
• bad'in single olarak yayımlanmayan tek şarkısıdır aynı zamanda.
• peter hammill'in 1983 tarihli patience albümünde de bu isimli bir şarkı vardır.
  
  peter hammill'in just good friends'inin sözleri de şöyleymiş:
  
  drawing back the curtains,
  sluggish city daylight in the afternoon...
  here's that special silence,
  just before you walk out of the hotel room.
  each time we're so close ı assume
  that we'll never be again -
  oh, how long must we pretend
  that we're just good friends?
  a casual affair is all that you can spare
  from your emotional change;
  a calendar of meetings,
  strangers on the street
  the best we ever arrange.
  now ı just can't stand all the pain,
  all the constant make and mend;
  how long must we pretend
  that we're just good friends?
  ı gave you my devotion,
  hiding nothing up my sleeve -
  ıf ı walked clean out of your life
  would you even notice me leave?
  so much tangled-up emotion,
  should ı stay or should ı go?
  ıf ı walked clean out of your life
  how long would it take you know?
  are we such good friends?
  you used to say 'ı love you',
  you used to say 'you make me
  feel alive and young';
  now we're just a habit, a flavour,
  one a month,
  to titillate your tongue.
  how sordid this has become
  as the means approach the end -
  oh, how long can we pretend
  that we're still good friends