Old Friends - Bookends Theme ( Simon And Garfunkel)18.th

Old Friends (Bookends Theme)lyrics

Old friends,
Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends.
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
On the high shoes
Of the old friends.

Old friends,
Winter companions,
The old men
Lost in their overcoats,
Waiting for the sunset.
The sounds of the city,
Sifting through the trees,
Settle like dust
On the shoulders
Of the old friends.

Can you imagine us
Years from today,
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange
To be seventy.

Old friends,
Memory brushes the same years.
Silently sharing the same fear....

Bookends Lyrics

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

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[dabcanuk]

And now they are 70.

[cardo1111]

brilliantly written, great performance.

[fendermelody]

Thank you. Very lovely and lovingly sung.

[gregwilliamslighthou]

I was 18 in Memphis, Tennessee, just started college and a new job and came THIS CLOSE to hopping in my lil' Ford Pinto Wagon and drivingn up to NYC to the this.