[Verse 1]
I don’t wanna be on my phone but I can’t be alone
Welcome to the modern way
Trying to be somebody I’m not but it’s not what I want
Tell me there’s another way
[Verse 2]
All the lights I chase now are faded
All the cheap thrills were only time wasted
Tell me why society’s plan should define who I am
Surely there’s a higher way
[Chorus]
All of my best friends are sick of pretending
We want the truth
So much is missing so give us the real thing
I know it’s You, I know it’s You
[Verse 3]
I don’t want a stereotype to decide who I am
I never knew me anyway
Over tryin’ to find the next hype cause the high never lasts
So I’mma go the other way
[Verse 4]
All the lights I chase now are faded
Dylan was right the times they are changing
Tell me why society’s plan should define who I am
Surely there’s a higher way
Best Friends
Song Meaning
Josh Baldwin names a specific daily habit rather than a general complaint in "Best Friends" — "I don't wanna be on my phone but I can't be alone, welcome to the modern way" — pairing an admitted addiction with the culture that normalizes it in the same breath.
"Trying to be somebody I'm not but it's not what I want" separates performance from desire directly, and "all the lights I chase now are faded, all the cheap thrills were only time wasted" looks back at pursued things with plain disappointment rather than nostalgia. "Tell me why society's plan should define who I am" turns the complaint into a question aimed at an entire system, not just a bad habit.
The chorus's claim is unusually specific for a worship song — "all of my best friends are sick of pretending, we want the truth" — locating spiritual hunger inside an actual friend group rather than a solitary crisis. "So much is missing so give us the real thing, I know it's You" names the object of that search directly, and "Dylan was right, the times they are changing" lets a borrowed line from outside the genre stand in for the whole verse's argument about a generation looking for something realer than what it was handed.