I built a friend

I built a friend

With three pieces of plastic and a pen

I made him on the table in the den

I gave him my old cell phone for a head

For a head

And we spent

Holidays at my house

And we left

Presents in a stocking

And we bought

Bolts and things and strings

And a new watch

That’s what he got

We had so much fun together

We knew we'd be friends forever

We had so much fun together

We had so much fun

Then I left

For college in September

And we wept

Cause we can't be together

So I kept

Pictures to remember

My old friend

My old friend

Then I met

This girl at graduation

And forget

My oldest creation

And I guess

I'll see him next vacation

Send my best

I send my best

We had so much fun together

We knew we'd be friends forever

We had so much fun together

We had so much fun

I came home

To find him on the table with a note

Scribbled out in pencil

And he wrote

That he just wasn’t stable

All alone

All alone

Next to him

An empty glass of water

That he spilt

All over that body that I built

It fizzled and it popped

And then it killed

And then it killed

We had so much fun together

We thought we'd be friends forever

We had so much fun together

We had so much fun

I built a friend