1. Some people love you with apparent affection,
Not lacking in their expressions of devotion.

2. Yet if adversity should test them, you will find
Their professed love was but an empty notion.

3. You’d think them trusts and treasures beyond measure,
But if you asked from them a measly quarter,

4. They’d take their friendship back faster than light
And blame it all on fate, that wily thwarter.