just good friends

• 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