The Rules We Never Wrote

Your fight was always my fight, Your wrong was sometimes right. We’d raise a little hell together, Then laugh about the night. If you called me twice, I answered, No questions, where or when. You never had to ask me— That’s just how we were as friends. No handshake, oath or promise, No code we ever spoke. We knew where each one stood By the rules we never wrote. We could go months in silence, Then talk like it’d been days. We never wrote the rules down— We just lived ’em anyway. You’d bust my ass in private, Then defend me to the end. I never got to say it— Thanks for being my friend. You knew when I was bullshitting, I knew when you were, too. You told me what I needed— Not what I wanted you to. You knew the names that crossed me, I knew the ones you fought. You kept the things I trusted you with And never once got caught. We never needed speeches, That wasn’t how we rolled. You showed me what your word was worth Without it being told. We could go months in silence, Then talk like it’d been days. We never wrote the rules down— We just lived ’em anyway. You’d bust my ass in private, Then defend me to the end. I never got to say it— Thanks for being my friend. You were my voice of reason— When neither one had sense. My partner in bad choices, My first line of defense. We didn’t solve life’s problems, But we gave ’em one hell of a try. And I’d give damn near anything For one more wasted night. We could go years in silence, Then talk like it’d been days. We never wrote the rules down— We just lived ’em anyway. You’d bust my ass in private, Then defend me to the end. I should’ve said it years ago— Thanks for being my friend. No grand goodbye between us, No need to make amends. Just something I still owed you— Thanks for being my friend.