What Is a Friend

[Intro]
Chimney
A friend to all, a friend to none
A friend indeed, find me the one
Hmm (Hmm), yeah (Busy), yeah (Brr)

[Verse 1]
Suh when di food ah eat, highs ah peep
[?] ah look, heart ah leak
Wolf a wolf, sheep a sheep
Yeah, yeah (Ayy, ayy)
Real a real, fake a fake
Gwaan wull from some ah shake a shake
Wid all wah gwaan, wi haffi wise and wull di fake, yay

[Chorus]
What is a friend?
In these times, mi haffi ask di question
What is a friend?
If it's only money di friendship depend on, yeah
What is a friend?
It is close enough someone yuh can call yuh family?
Sometime di world friends overrated
Yuh d'even know who fi relate wid

[Verse 2]
I know every [?] wi ah talk, oh
'Nuff nuh clean inna dem heart, oh
Some a dem come wid smiley face
If dem nuh get dem well, dem depart, oh (Uh-uh)
Tink smart, walk wisely
Two friends anuh supm weh yuh buck up inna nightly
It's like a seed weh yuh sow, tek suh much time to grow
Real friends organic and timely

[Chorus]
What is a friend?
In these times, mi haffi ask di question
What is a friend?
If it's only money di friendship depend on, yeah
What is a friend?
It is close enough someone yuh can call yuh family?
Sometime di world friends overrated
Yuh d'even know who fi relate wid

[Verse 3]
When di food nuh deh 'pon di table
Stuck around, who still siddung 'pon seat?
Di heart got [?] unable
I know everytime you haffi go from di thrill, yuh can see it
All my life, I know
Nuh body cyaan tek mi fi nuh damn papi show
Mama neva grow mi suh
Mi know mi family different from friends and folk
Oh, in this lifetime
Oh, people change so easily
Some only in it for personal game
Then the rest is ease to be (Oh)
Some a dem have multiple [?]
Nuff a dem a pretty and nuff a dem a actor
It's a hurtful feeling
Real friends, some nuh know di meaning

[Chorus]
What is a friend?
In these times, mi haffi ask di question
What is a friend?
If it's only money di friendship depend on, yeah
What is a friend?
It is close enough someone yuh can call yuh family?
Sometime di world friends overrated
Yuh d'even know who fi relate wid

[Verse 1]
Suh when di food ah eat, highs ah peep
[?] ah look, heart ah leak
Wolf a wolf, sheep a sheep
Yeah, yeah (Ayy, ayy)
Real a real, fake a fake
Gwaan wull from some ah shake a shake
Wid all wah gwaan, wi haffi wise and wull di fake, yay

[Outro]
What is a friend?
What is a friend?
What is a friend? Yo