Not for the first time I look back   on all those years   Not for the last time names will ring   in my ear   When there was just a gang of us   Storming the town by train and bus   A moment of thought this heart sends   to old friends      Not for the first time I look back   on my first love   Unable to speak or think or move   hand in glove   But what of it now and where is he   He who once meant so much to me   Because we are not, I can't pretend   now old friends      I was told love should hold old friends   I was told love should hold od friends   But when you leave you will close the door   behind you   Don't we always   And time won't make amends   to old friends      Standing here with my arm around you   life's moved on   And all its borderlines   are being redrawn   The winter has come the roads are white   Everyone's home late tonight   May we stay or will it depend   as old friends   In the end still old friends