or even call me on the phone
Not once through your own doing
have you been inside my heart
You're all tied up and busy
trying to get your kicks and shine
It's late nights out with cigarettes
and whiskey girls and wine
Everybody needs a real good friend
A friend to stick through
everybody needs a real good friend
and found you couldn't make it through
but you had other things to do
Oh, you didn't have a thing,
you couldn't easily postpone
But you wouldn't take no time for me
and I won't go back alone
Everybody needs a real good friend
A friend to stick through the thick
and the thin till the end
I'm a sad boy and some sad
Step gladly round that handsome town
Walk tall among the myriad walls
And shine beneath the light
Do all the things you'd like to do
There's one sure thing I swear
Everybody needs a real good friend
A friend to stick through the thick
and the thin till the end
Everybody needs a real good friend