Hello friend, where you been so long?   Time goes by, so easy it sleeps away   Just like a shadow at the end of the day      Hello friend, how are things for you these days?   Some guy from way-back-when, he mentioned your name   Did he ever get back to you?   Ah, you know I told him to      Sometimes I turn and I swear I hear you call   And I often wonder how we lost what we knew   Seems it gone in the wind, washed away in the rain   And the years go by and by      The bridges you burned, long sinced turned into ashes   When there were no reasons, now the river runs dry   Seems it gone in the wind, washed away in the rain   And the years go by and by   Where you been so long