Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends

Old friends,
Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends.
A newspaper blown though 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 sunset.
The sounds of the city,
Sifting through 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 fears

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Simon
• Garfunkel
• Old
• Friends
• Bookends

[MizzOMA]

The advert for pizza coupons flashng up on the screen really adds to this beautiful song. Youtube are twats.

[honeyglamourdancehug]

Ricky ♥ Gervais



[jbdrd654321]

How melonchaly now that time has passed and here they are...I can see them sitting in Central Park...I can see myself as well...

[honeyglamourdancehug]

@TeeAychEee yesx24 - just adding up how many ppl agree with me, myself included ;D

[TeeAychEee]

@honeyglamourdancehug no

[theprophet20]

@1footonthedawn

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man." This observation came from a rather surprising source, namely Leon Trotsky, the Soviet Revolutionary, who himself met a violent death in his sixtieth year...

[koliko987]

@MsZiggystarbucks Maybe it was this song in a movie but back then you didnt now it was Simon&Garfunkel?

[Pillagerox]

I wonder if Art called up Paul and was, like, "Dude, park bench, NOW! and we have to be quiet about it."

[kattelyn92]

Happy Birthday, Art! :')

[1footonthedawn]

Now Art is 70, Paul already was. It IS terribly strange. Stranger still that it no longer seems so far away for any of us who like their music. 

[qqpwpqi]

As of today they're both 70. How terribly strange.