~~~ Best friends day, well, it came and went And not without incident On the hill they're all moving in But I don't care much I'm dodging branches from Maple trees They've stolen heavy and steady sleep They seized every city street With tuition bought full dirt And I sat at the river with Ronnie Watching the Cormorants And the Osprey diving for their prey He asked about old friends I said, I ain't seen none of them He's said, they're all transient, man And their footprints they washed away Still I walk this town Hoping to get lost some how It seems by now though I've smoothed a path in every side walk It's all painted black and gold Black tar where once stood homes Gold in the hand of each student based franchise And I sat at the river with Ronnie Watching the Cormorants And the Osprey diving for their prey He asked about old friends I said, I ain't seen none of them He said, how'd you get here, man? And why'd you stay? Come on brother, let's make a list Of all those gone that we still miss Let's make a list of what they believed And we still do Like living first and working last And beating the day before it's past Like what's mine is yours, man And what's yours is mine I think I'll stay here getting older And angrier And getting louder with each passing day And think about old friends And all that I have learned from them They may have moved on, man But we'll all be gone someday ~~~