Chali 2na]   Yo, this is a lesson in friendship   The depths of a kinship   What women and men begin with, and then slip   My pen drips   As I scribble my thoughts on thin strips   Of emotion   A fraction, seduction, attraction   Eruption of passion   Corrupts if a lasted friendship's involved   But love to cross the line   But that's why we built these walls      [Hook: Nelly Furtado]   We been friends for a long time, a very close friend of mine   Love you like you was mine, but respect a thin line   I love you like you was mine, think about you all the time   Very close friend of mine, but respect a thin line      [Akil]   Opposite's attract   When the female and male come in contact   Sticky situation in fact   Tryin not to let the feelings catch   But there's a thin line between both of y'all   So you respect that   And entertain the idea, but get brought back   To reality, and could you really live with that?   Decision, based on intuition   You love and keep your distance   Hug and kiss in friendship      [Marc 7]   An ongoing kinship, we was people to begin with   Disrespect was not intended   but your feelings sparked the sentence   Sometimes you're too intense in your quest to invent   The perfect man, please understand, my rhyme is your repent      [(Hook) - repeat 2X]      [Soup]   Man, too bad that we became friends first   I'm not on expert on how relationships should work   But, (echos) from the minute it as known   It changed the whole tone on how we spoke on the phone   Yo, it was cool but I felt it wasn't enough   And I was stuck when your moms would pick it up   Over you, all my buddies would swoon   But I felt we were in tune, you let me up in your room. (Damn)   But to me girl, you're still off limits   No matter all the times that I hinted. (Yo, whatchu doin after this?)   Infactuation was authentic, but yo I just pretended   So I wouldn't lose the friendship   Maybe, I should spill all my guts   Or write a letter, then tear it up   Or do a song, just to say what's up   I want ... just ... a touch      [(Hook) - repeat 2X]      [Nelly Furtado]   I can't do this anymore   See my heart just falls out when you walk in the door   Friendship turns into lust and this only tip   That I can't comprehend even if I knew it   Can't do justice to these things that I'm feeling   You got someone else, don't wanna be caught stealing   Hell if she knew she would never leave us alone   in the roo-ooo-ooom      [Chali 2na]   This was a lesson in friendship   I stress in this sentence   Should women and men be friends first?   And then slip?   My pen drips as I scribble my thoughts on thin strips   of devotion      [Akil]   Opposites attract   And best friends make a perfect match   If you only knew that   Once you cross, ain't no turning back   The minute you let him in it and he hit that   That's that      [Marc 7]   We was people to begin with, but you was too relentless   Jeporidizing kinship, respect is intended   Resolve is my intent   While we got it in   I'm tryin to salvage a friendship      [(Hook) - repeat 2X]