It's strange to find we're almost strangers   As I turn to leave you now   I know there are dangers   You have believed in me   As I believed in you   But it's not hard to see   In the end a man should do   What his heart tells him he must   And so I place my trust in the parting of the ways   The days that I have stood beside you   They are days that I could not forget if I tried to   But day has turned to night   Life's changed for you and me   Who knows what's wrong or right   We'll agree to disagree   Now the time for talk has passed   And so we reach at last the parting of the ways   Now I need to find my own direction   Side by side we faced the world together   But nothing lasts forever   And so the story ends   More than pride's dividing you and I now   And though we say goodbye now   At least we part as friends   It seems our future is decided   Now the fates dictate that you and I be divided   And though it's hard to tell   Where we will go from here   You know I wish you well   Even though my course is clear   It's no easy thing I do   To walk away from you at the parting of the ways   Though I need to find my own direction   You can bet I'll never forget   The times we've come through   But now we come to   The parting of the ways         From 'spartacus' - jeff wayne