Old Friends

Not for the first time I look back

on all those years

Not for the last time names will ring

in my ear

When there was just a gang of us

Storming the town by train and bus

A moment of thought this heart sends

to old friends

Not for the first time I look back

on my first love

Unable to speak or think or move

hand in glove

But what of it now and where is he

He who once meant so much to me

Because we are not, I can't pretend

now old friends

I was told love should hold old friends

I was told love should hold old friends

But when you leave you will close the door

behind you

Don't we always

And time won't make amends

to old friends

Standing here with my arm around you

life's moved on

And all its borderlines

are being redrawn

The winter has come the roads are white

Everyone's home late tonight

May we stay or will it depend

as old friends

In the end still old friends