I'm feelin' so good right now
As a handsome boy tells me how I changed his past.
He buys me a brandy.
Oh, could it be he's really just after my ass?
He likes the clothes I wear
He says he likes a man to dress in season
But no one else ever stares.
He's being so kind, what's the reason?
 
How many friends have I really got?
You can count 'em on one hand.
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got
That love me, that want me, that'll take me as I am?
 
Suddenly it's a silver screen
And a face so beautiful that I have to cry out.
Ev'rybody hears me,
Well I'll look like a fool now if I try to shy out.
She knows all my friends
But it's nice to find a woman who will stay on late.
Now I think I've reached the end,
I wonder in the dead of night: How do I rate?
 
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got
That love me, that want me, that'll take me as I am?
 
It's all like a dream, you know, when you're still up early in the mornin',
And you all sit together to watch the sun come through.
But things don't look so good when you could use a bit of warnin'
Then you know that no one will ever speak the truth about you.
 
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got
That love me, that want me, that'll take me as I am?
 
When I first signed the contract
It was more than a handshake then, I know it still is.
But there's a plain fact,
We talk so much shit behind each other's backs, I get the willies.
People know nothing about their own soft guts,
So how come they can sum us up
Without suffering all the hype we've known?
How come they bum us up?
 
How many friends have I really got?
You can count 'em on the one hand
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got
That love me, that want me, that'll take me as I am?