My words are lazy

    My thoughts are hazy

    But this is one thing I’m sure of

    Everybody needs a best friend

    I’m happy I’m yours

    You got a double

    Who brings you trouble

    And though you’re better without me

    Everybody needs a best friend

    I’m happy I’m yours

    A fool could see decidedly

    That you’re a ten and I’m a three

    A royal breed is what you need

    So how did you come to be stuck with a bummer like me

    Oh you got a head full of someone dreadful

    But how that someone adores you

    Everybody needs a best friend

    I’m happy I’m yours

    A fool could see decidedly

    That you’re a ten and I’m a three

    A royal breed is what you need

    So how did you come to be stuck with a bummer like me

    Oh you got a head full of someone dreadful

    And yet at last that someone adores you

    Everybody needs a best friend

    I’m happy I’m yours

    I’m just a clown

    And I’ll bring you down

    But you just don’t care

    ‘Cause your best friend is me

    Background:

    This is an Oscar-nominated song from the 2012 summer comedy hit “Ted,” music by Walter Murphy, lyrics by Seth MacFarlane. “Walter Murphy and I really did work extremely hard on that song to try to write something that is classic and ideally timeless sounding,” MacFarlane said. Norah Jones, who sang the song on the soundtrack, performed it again on Oscar night. Of the R&B style, the song is about the long-lasting friendship between the film’s leading role John Bennett and Ted (a teddy bear coming to life at the wish of the boy).