Old Friends

Old friends, old friends sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blowin' through the grass
Falls on the round toes of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years, silently sharing the same fears...

The years, the tears, the laughter, things we used to do
Are memories that warm me like a sunny day

Not for the first time I looked back on all those years
Not for the last time names will ring in my ears
When there was just a gang of us storming the town by bus
A moment of thought this heart sends to old friends