Almost Friends
rap, Moody pop built on minor-key piano and sparse trap drums, sub bass pulsing under breathy female vocals; verses intimate and close-mic with hip-hop-influenced phrasing, choruses soar with layered harmonies and distorted guitars swelling in, mild metal crunch on the downbeats; bridge strips back to vocal and piano before slamming into a final heavy chorus and a soft, resigned outro., sad, female vocals, pop, hip hop, metal
Almost Friends
rap, Moody pop built on minor-key piano and sparse trap drums, sub bass pulsing under breathy female vocals; verses intimate and close-mic with hip-hop-influenced phrasing, choruses soar with layered harmonies and distorted guitars swelling in, mild metal crunch on the downbeats; bridge strips back to vocal and piano before slamming into a final heavy chorus and a soft, resigned outro., sad, female vocals, pop, hip hop, metal
Lyrics
Verse 1
You still know my coffee order
You still park two streets away
We still laugh at stupid stories
Then run out of words to say
You stand in the kitchen doorway
Like you’re scared of stepping through
Every question feels like walking
On the edge around the truth
Chorus
We’re almost friends
Like we never used to hold each other
Almost friends
Like we never planned a life together
Careful eyes, crooked grins
Talking like we’re strangers, but our hands remember
We’re almost friends
Almost friends forever
Verse 2
You ask if I’m seeing someone
Like you’re asking ‘bout the news
I pretend I never loved you
You pretend that that’s the truth
Your joke lands and I start smiling
Then I swallow what I’d say
‘Cause the punchline has a history
We’re not allowed to name
Chorus
We’re almost friends
Like we didn’t watch the night turn morning
Almost friends
Like we never knew each other’s warnings
Tight replies, shaky breaths
Sharing all the weather, not the storm inside us
We’re almost friends
Guess that’s what’s left of us
Bridge
How do you lose you
While you’re standing right here? (right here)
How do we both act fine
When the silence is loud with the last few years?
I wanna ask, “Do you miss me?”
But my mouth just says, “Drive safe”
You nod like it’s our last language
As I watch you pull away
Chorus
We’re almost friends
Like we never said forever, crying
Almost friends
Like a ghost of us is still surviving
Polite goodbyes, practiced lines
Two people who remember what we can’t revisit
We’re almost friends
And that hurts more than ending did