I wanna tell you about
The way I was when I grew up

I used to walk around
By the museum of Fine Arts in Boston
I'd be lonely you know
Always wondering through all the little places
Like the room where they keep the Cézannes

I always thought to myself, you know
Gee, if I had by my side a girlfriend
I could look through all these paintings here
You know, I could look right through them

I know something that I understand
I understand a girlfriend
Now that's a girl... friend
That's a G-I-R-L
Loneliness!
F-R-E-N
That's a girlfriend
Now baby
That's something that I understand

I always used to walk around
I had my heart in my lonely hands
I understand a girlfriend
Now that's a girl... friend
That's a G-I-R-L
F-R-E-N
Now that's a girlfriend
Now baby now
That's something that I understand
I've grown up wanting that stuff
Here we go now

I used to grow up a lonely frustrated little kid
I walked through the Fenway at 4 o'clock
With my heart in my hands
I understand
I used to understand a girl
That's the only thing that I knew
I would be the one that cared

That's a girl... friend
G-I-R-L F-R-E-N
I said a girlfriend, now baby
That was something that I understand