Friends Like You is a song about finding out where you actually stood with people, and deciding not to stay there. It opens quietly, like replaying old conversations and seeing them differently now. Over a slow, heavy half-time bounce, the first half lets the resentment out without holding back: the favors that only went one way, the friends who were around when you had something to give, the slow realization that being needed isn't the same as being valued. The key sits between major and minor the whole way, warm memories of what those friendships felt like, soured by what they turned out to be. Around the two-minute mark the beat drops out, and the anger drains with it. What's left is just discomfort, faced directly instead of shouted over. When the music comes back, it isn't a revenge lap. It's forward motion: taking the lesson, leaving the grudge, and walking off lighter than you came in. The title started as an accusation. By the end it sounds more like a goodbye.
