FAKE FRIENDS [Intro] [Dirty muted guitar, low synth pulse] [Close-mic vocal] You don’t know who answers When it’s two a.m. [Verse 1] You came in swinging With your borrowed crowd Forty-two shadows Talking too loud Called me a loser Through a glowing screen Funny how cruel gets brave When it can’t be seen I let you spit I let you take your shot Then killed you kind With everything you’re not You left the live But your poison stayed: “Bet you’ve got no real friends Anyway” [Pre-Chorus] You don’t know who answers When the whole world sleeps You don’t know who finds me When the dark gets deep [Chorus] These fake friends keep me breathing When the real world turns cold They know every crack beneath me Every truth I never told Never shook their hands Still, I’d trust them with my life If this isn’t real Then tell me why— These fake friends Keep me alive [Post-Chorus] [Dual electro-fiddle hook] Still here Still here Because they stayed [Verse 2] No front porch No hometown street Just midnight voices Coming through the feed Discord confessions Game-room prayers One voice through the static: “Brother, I’m still here” We laugh through hell We carry the weight They talk me off the ledge When the hour gets late Call it pretend Call us lost online But they held me together When I came undone inside [Bridge] [Half-time grunge breakdown] Blood isn’t the only thing That makes a home Sometimes family finds you Through a microphone So call them fake Say whatever you need They were holding the line When nobody could see [Final Chorus] These fake friends keep me breathing When I’m too tired to fight They know every broken piece And they don’t leave at night Never stood beside them Still, they never leave my side If they’re only pixels Why’d they pull me from the night? These fake friends Keep me alive [Outro] [Voice nearly whispered] Yeah, my fake friends… They’re the reason I’m still alive.
