Old Friends

Not for the first time I look 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 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