It's Nice To Have A Friend
Lover (2019)
Lyrical Theme
«There’s a song on Lover about flashback and childhood. It compares childhood friendships to when you find someone to fall in love with when you’re older, called 'It’s Nice To Have A Friend.' It’s very nostalgic.»
Production
«It was fun to write a song that was just verses because my whole body and soul wants to make a chorus – every time I sit down to write a song I’m like, ‘Okay, chorus time, let’s get the chorus done.’ But with that song, it was more of like a poem, and a story, and a vibe, and a feeling. I love metaphors that kind of have more than one meaning. We all want love, we all want to find somebody to see our sights with, and hear things with, and experience things with. But at the end of the day we’ve been searching for that since we were kids! When you had a friend when you were nine years old, and that friend was all you talked about, and you wanted to have sleepovers, and you wanted to walk down the street together, and sit there drawing pictures together, or be silent together, or be talking all night. We’re just looking for that, but endless sparks, as adults.»
Commercial Performance
Lyrics
[Intro]
Ooh
Ooh
[Verse 1]
School bell rings, walk me home
Sidewalk chalk covered in snow
Lost my gloves, you give me one
“Wanna hang out?” Yeah, sounds like fun
Video games, you pass me a note
Sleeping in tents
[Chorus]
It’s nice to have a friend (Ooh)
It’s nice to have a friend (Ooh)
[Verse 2]
Light pink sky, up on the roof
Sun sinks down, no curfew
Twenty questions, we tell the truth
You’ve been stressed out lately, yeah, me too
Something gave you the nerve
To touch my hand
[Chorus]
It’s nice to have a friend (Ooh)
It’s nice to have a friend (Ooh)
[Instrumental bridge]
[Verse 3]
Church bells ring, carry me home
Rice on the ground looks like snow
Call my bluff, call you “Babe”
Have my back, yeah, every day
Feels like home, stay in bed
The whole weekend
[Chorus]
It’s nice to have a friend (Ooh)
It’s nice to have a friend (Ooh)
It’s nice to have a friend (Ooh)
(Ooh)