Bookends / Old Friends

[Part I: Bookends]

[Verse]

Time it was and what a time it was, it was

A time of innocence

A time of confidences

Long ago, it must be

I have a photograph

Preserve your memories

They're all that's left you

[Part II: Old Friends]

[Verse 1]

Old friends

Old friends

Sat on their park bench like bookends

A newspaper blown through the grass

Falls on the round toes of the high shoes

Of the old friends

[Verse 2]

Old friends

Winter companions, the old men

Lost in their overcoats waiting for the sunset

The sounds of thе city sifting through trees

Settle like dust on thе shoulders

Of the old friends

[Bridge]

Can you imagine us years from today

Sharing a park bench quietly?

How terribly strange to be seventy

[Verse 3]

Old friends

Memory brushes the same years

Silently sharing the same fears

[Part III: Bookends Reprise]

[Verse]

I have a photograph

Preserve your memories

They're all that's left you