You Find Out Who Your Friends Are

Run your car off the side of the road
Get stuck in a ditch way out in the middle of nowhere
Or get yourself in a bind lose the shirt off your back
Need a floor, need a couch, need a bus fare

This is where the rubber meets the road
This is where the cream is gonna rise
This is what you really didn't know
This is where the truth don't lie

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You find out who your friends are
Somebody's gonna drop everything
Run out and crank up their car
Hit the gas, get there fast
Never stop to think 'what's in it for me?' or 'it's way too far'
They just show on up with their big old heart
You find out who your friends are

Everybody wants to slap your back
wants to shake your hand
when you're up on top of that mountain
But let one of those rocks give way then you slide back down look up
and see who's around then

This ain't where the road comes to an end
This ain't where the bandwagon stops
This is just one of those times when
A lot of folks jump off

[Chorus]

When the water's high
When the weather's not so fair
When the well runs dry
Who's gonna be there?

[Chorus]

You find out who your friends are
(yeah, yeah)
You find out who your friends are

Run your car off the side of the road
Get stuck in a ditch way out in the middle of nowhere
(Well man, I've been there)
Or get yourself in a bind lose the shirt off your back
Need a floor, need a couch, need a bus fare
(Man, I've been there)

Man, I've been there
Oooh yeah

So I have been thinking about how amazing all my friends are
and tonight when my doorbell rang at 10:45 I remembered how lucky I am
lucky to know so many people
lucky to have surrounded myself with such amazing friends
lucky to associate with all these incredible people
lucky to have so many friends
well I went to the door and this is what I found

someone left me a flower (which is so pretty!), cookies and two notes.
to whomever left this for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You will never know how much this means to me and how much this was needed. You were truly a God Send.

Another thing! Along the lines of friends I had the opportunity to go to the Distinguished Young Women's Pageant and see some of my amazingly beautiful and talented friends perform. Here they are!

so to all my friends new and old

the calm and the bold

to those who have loved me at my worst

and those who make me laugh till I burst

Thank you for all that you do

I will always love you too

I'll never forget the times that we shared

it meant a lot when you showed that you cared

the memories I've gained

I will carry forever