Old Friends (for W@@dro)

[napman]

I was kind of hesitate to put this in this Songbook Forum but then I think it's more suitable than at YouTube Forum because for one reason it's Farang song and the other reason is because I wanted to dedicate this one for friendship between I and W@@dro.

Someone may say "Big Deal!" and he's right!

I and W@@dro first met and became close friends more than 40 years ago, we became friends by choice not by chance. We've spent only few wonderful years together doing what we loved most and went seperate ways and after so many years of searching I just gave up thinking that I would never see him or hear from him again.

Now it seems like we are back together again (Thanks to Nimit in particular), enjoying what we still love most and also have a chance or two to give some precious experiences that nobody could buy it, we paid the price by years of our lifes, so I think they are priceless!!

I'm so glad he re-appeared in this Bluehouse to entertain quite a lot of our younger generations and me too.

I thought of him today and Impromtu!, this song came out from me to him, 40 years from now I wonder if there'll be any other two friends that will re-act what we're doing today?

OLD FRIENDS (Simon & Garfunkel)
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



Friendship is one of the most wonderful things that we human beings can experience in our life times.