Best songs about being 'just friends' with the one you love, but are hoping for more?

I think the Smiths' classic There is a Light That Never Goes Out falls into the category. That final "darkened underpass" verse suggests that this is merely a platonic relationship that the singer wants to take further.

 

Great song but it's about a john remembering a prostitute, yes?

 

Complicated

 

Favorite song for unrequited love Is Different drum by Linda Ronstadt.

 

If he wants to blow here off, then Different Drum is appropriate.
I'm thinking you meant:

 

"Friends" might be stretching it, but this one comes to mind:



You can't imagine how it hurts me
To have you treat me like you do
Knowing that my love is just a joke to you
But I'll take it just to see you
And laugh as teardrops fall
So when you need a laugh, give me a call

Everybody says I'm crazy
To let you treat me this way
But I can't explain, so, what else can I say
At least I'm on your mind when you're laughin'
Somehow that breaks the fall
So when you need a laugh, give me a call

I'd gladly trade the laugh you get
For making fun of me
To be around the one I love and need so desperately
So even if the laugh's on me
I don't mind at all
So when you need a laugh, give me a call
So when you need a laugh, give me a call

 

Close to Cathy - Mike Clifford

 

It doesn't exactly fit, but how about Jessie's Girl by Ricky Springfield?

 

Please Please Me
Love Me Do
I Wanna Be Your Man
If I Fell
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Till There Was You
Eight Days a Week
It's Only Love

If none of the above work for you, then...
I'm a Loser

 

Haha maybe.

 

Well, with this thread you have plenty of choices...

 

Thanks, my bad! Guess the mind gets fuzzier as you get older.