A round the corner I have a friend,
In this
great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush
on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my
old friend's face,
For life is a swift and terrible race,
He
knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his
bell.
And he rang mine
If, we were younger then,
And now
we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired
of trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow" I say "I will call on
Jim"
"Just to show that I'm thinking of him."
But tomorrow comes
and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and
grows.
Around the corner - yet miles away,
"Here's a
telegram sir"
"Jim died today."
And that's what we get and
deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend.
Henson Towne