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Introdução: A
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I built a friend with three pieces of plastic and a pen,
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I made him on the table in the den,
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I gave him my old cellphone for a head,
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For a head.
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And we spent holidays in my house,
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And we left presents in the stocking,
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And we bought bolts and things and strings and a new watch,
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That' s what he got.
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And we had so much fun together,
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We knew we' d be friends forever.
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And we had so much fun together,
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we had so much fun.
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Then I left for college in September
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And we wept cause we can' t be together
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So I kept pictures to remember my old friend,
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My old friend.
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Then I met this girl at graduation
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And forget my oldest creation
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And I guess I' ll see him next vacation
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Send my best, I send my best
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And we had so much fun together,
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We knew we' d be friends forever.
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And we had so much fun together,
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we had so much fun.
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I came home to find him on the table with a note
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Scribbled out in pencil and he wrote
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That he just wasn' t stable all alone,
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All alone.
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Next to him, an empty glass of water that he spilled
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All over the body that I built,
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It fizzled and it popped and then it killed,
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And then it killed.
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And we had so much fun together,
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We thought we' d be friends forever.
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And we had so much fun together,
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we had so much fun.
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I built a friend.