[Intro] 
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[Verse 1]
                
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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,  for a head.
       
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And we spent holidays in my house, and we left presents in the stocking,
          
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And we bought bolts and things and strings and a new watch, that's what he got.
 
[Chorus]
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And we had so much fun together, we knew we'd be friends forever.
And we had so much fun together, we had so much fun.
 
[Verse 2]
        
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Then I left for college in September, and we wept cause we can't be together
      
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So I kept pictures to remember my old friend,  my old friend
        
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Then I met this girl at graduation, and forget my oldest creation
       
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And I guess I'll see him next vacation; send my best, I send my best
 
[Chorus]
 
[Verse 3]
          
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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,  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,  and then it killed.
 
[Chorus]

[Outro]
           
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I built a friend.