Be My Friend (The Bar-Room Song)

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Be My Friend (The Bar-Room Song) is an original song written, produced and with lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas with music exclusively commercially licensed to Paul.
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Be My Friend (The Bar-Room Song) lyrics
Come over here, I’ll pour you a drink
I just wanna talk, no matter what you might think
We’ve said ‘Hi’ here and there out on the street
But we never really had the chance to meet
So come on you’ve got nothing to lose
Tell me what’s your poison, what do you like to booze?

I’ve been drinking all the day
The bar-room walls are starting to sway
Why should I have to pretend?
I just wanna be your friend

Pull up a stool, you can ease your load
You can unwind here, come on have one for the road
You see I don’t want anything from you
Tell me about yourself, what is it you do?
Don’t wanna know secrets of your heart
Or about your life from now to back to the start

The drink’s beginning to talk
It’s getting so I can hardly walk
Are you able to comprehend?
I just wanna be your friend

I don’t know you, you sure don’t know me
This is the best way, you surely have to agree
You can say what you want and feel out loud
You don’t have to pretend you run with the crowd
You’ve sat here but you haven’t spoke yet
You sure are the strangest stranger I’ve ever met

Our heads are starting to spin
You’d better wipe that froth of your chin
What I mean to intend
Is that will you be my friend?

Now I don’t feel alone
So will you help me home?
On you I feel I can depend
Do that and you’ll really be my friend
So I don’t feel alone
Will you help me home?
Will you help me home?

Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS: 982346DS ISWC: T-339.459.376-7
Audiosparx: Catalog ID: 1400462 ISRC: US5UL2625509

released March 27, 2026
Written, produced and with lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas with music exclusively commercially licensed to Paul

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