The Boy Next Door

I've known you since you were a schoolgirl

Saw the smoke turn to fire in your eyes

From the window of my room

I watched a young girl bloom

Watched you fall in love a time or two

I saw you get hurt once or twice

And you'd come running over

Cry on my shoulder

Sometimes I'd get to hold you all night.



There in my arms you'd lay soft and warm

You never felt the writing on the wall

You never knew how I wanted you

I was the boy next door, that's all

Just the boy next door, that's all.



I watched you drift away, out of my reach

I never got to hold you again

And here in my heart

Is the saddest part?

We'll never know how it might have been.



There in my arms you'd lay soft and warm

You never felt the writing on the wall

You never knew how I wanted you

I was the boy next door, that's all

Just the boy next door, that's all.



Do you ever think about me baby?

The boy next door, that's all...