Absent Friends

Don't bend down in front of me It's more than I can take Don't brush the hair out of your face It's more than I can take Here's to absent friends Who might never meet again Here's to you and I and everything Try your best not to smile at me It's more

No matter how I try I just can't get her out of my mind And when I sleep I visualize her. I saw her in the pub. I met her later at the night-club. A mutual friend introduced us. We talked about the noise And how it's hard to hear your own voice Above

When I hold you in my arms, And look back on my charmed- life My charmed life I hope, I hope if nothing more That one day you'll call your- Life A charmed life Well I never really worried that much About making lots of money and such And I always see

You and I go together Like the molar and the drill Flesh is weak but darling we know That the ego's weaker still I've been hung, drawn and quartered Slowly slaughtered like a goat By the tongue of a woman Who just couldn't let it go Sticks and stones

When the beautiful set sail back in 1970 She was state of the art, the flagship of our navy. But the salt sea took its toll and the rust began to show, And with a heavy heart we took her to the breaker's yard. I thought I heard her call, maybe I hear

William wakes with his clothes on. The morning call has been and gone, And he might not make the flight but he will try. A bunch of Belgian business men And a strange drinking game, oh God why? He hails a cab but the driver sucks. He drives so slowly

Absent friends, here's to them And happy days We thought that they would never end Here's to absent friends Little Jean Seberg seemed So full of life But in those eyes such troubled dreams Poor little Jean Woodbine Willie couldn't rest until he'd Giv