Agony of the Friend Zone Blues

 

THE fRIEND zONE bLUES

How do you express in words how it feels to be an inmate-victim of the Friend Zone?                       

Personally, I can't do it. But songwriters in the Spanish language are mighty good at it. So I translated their lyrics into this little, humble piece into English. It's a song interpreted (or sung) by Mexican singer Christian Castro and he's done a splendid job of it. This song expresses in song form what I've felt so many times for women I've had to settle as a friend for. This is a hellish existence that so many people have felt and yet don't know how to express. 

So, it's for them, who have too often loved from afar, and loved in vain, that  that I dedicate this song.

I'm still here in my dream of continuing to love you
 Will it be?
 It will be as you want, but it will be
 If I still have seven more lives to wait for you
 I will get hung up on this feeling
 For loving You so
 Is that my fortune, is that my punishment?
 Could it be that so much love is forbidden?
 I'm still here dying to be with you
 For loving You so

One step away from your mouth and without being able to . . . , kiss it

 So close to your skin and unable to touch it
 Burning with desire with every look
 For loving You so
 For loving You so
 For loving You
 So I walk on this tightrope
 For going after your footprint turned into a shadow
 Prisoner of the love that you denied me one day
 Counting the seconds that go by to see you
 Making you guilty of my own luck
 Daydreaming of making you mine
 Will be
 It will be as you want, but it will be
 If I still have seven more lives to wait for you
 I will get hung up on this feeling
 For loving You so
 Is that my fortune, is that my punishment
 Could it be that so much love is forbidden?
 And I'm still here dying to be with you
 For loving You so
 

One step away from your mouth and without being able to . . . , to kiss it
 

So close to your skin and unable to touch it
Burning with desire with every look
For loving You so
For loving You so

 
Source: Musixmatch                                                                                                                                                   

Songwriters: Alejandro Montalban and  

Eduardo Napoles Reyes

Por Amarte Así lyrics © Wb Music Corp.