Lyrics: This catchy song by our friend Joanne Hammil really gets at the ups and downs of friendship, respecting what a complicated subject this can be.

    (Chorus:)
    I wanna be friends with you!
    I wanna laugh again and again with you;
    Argue and know that we can see it through;
    I wanna be right there when you're feelin' blue,
    Stick together like crazy glue
    And be friends, friends, friends with you.

Some people have one best friend -
    that always sounds like fun;
Some people have a bunch of friends
    and they like somethin' different 'bout every one;
Well, I don't know just what I've got,
    but right now I know that I like you a lot
Because I'm friends, friends, friends with . . .
    Wanna travel around the bends with . . .
Friends, friends, friends with you!

    (Chorus)

Sometimes when we're together,
    it's not as good as I thought it would be
And sometimes when we fight it seems
    it's not what a friendship ought to be
But most of the time when we're goofin' around,
    there's nothing puts me so far off the ground
As bein' friends, friends, friends with . . .
    We can fight and make amends with . . .
Friends, friends, friends with you!

(Bridge:)
There are times when I feel lonely, and seems like no one cares
Sometimes when I think of friends, it feels like nobody's really there
So I've learned to be my own friend too, 
    'cause there's times when nobody else will do
Hey, my own good friendship can pull me through,
    'till I can be with you

    (Chorus)

Hey, we don't always have to have fun, don't even have to smile
We can tell each other stupid stuff, even be sad for a while;
But when it seems like things just couldn't be worse
Hey, there's nothing better in this universe
Than bein' friends, friends, friends, with . . .
Standin' together 'till the ends with . . .
Friends, friends, friends with you!

    (Chorus - repeat "Friends, friends, friends with" 3x before last phrase)