#30in30 '16, Day One: Role Play

I can't believe I let myself get played
Again
I can't believe you thought I would be okay
In this role
By your side, but you ain't mine
I done done my time
Still, you only call me when you need something
Might as well lose my line

I'm tired of playing the background
Tired of being your friend
Sick that you won't notice me
Like I haven't been there from the beginning
I ain't nobody's fool but my own
Stay staring at you when you ain't looking my way
I don't know why I continue to stay
While you keep me in the background

Seen these suitors come and go,
Watched them all crash and burn
You called me after every time,
Asking if you should've seen the signs
Instead of being honest, I lied
Protected your heart at the cost of my pride
But who I am to you?
Who am I am to you?

I'm just the man you keep in the background
Out of the pictures, out of sight
I don't know why, I always think it's cuz you think
I ain't good enough to share the light
And I can't say what I want us to be,
Because you'd just ignore me
Hate I can't get away because you've established my place:
In the background while you play.