Released: March 18, 1977
Songwriter: Peter Sills
Producer: Bruce Welch
We turned water into wine but that didn't last
We were the victims of our age
Now we live on different floors
And go our separate ways
And talk behind closed doors
We changed our world waiting for it all to end
It's such a shame but who's to blame
When two worlds drift apart
We used to sit around the fire
And whisper words the world outside would make no claim to hear
But now we talk an octave higher
In droning tones that don't relate at all to yester year
We changed our world waiting for it all to end
It's such a shame but who's to blame
When two worlds drift apart
Do you remember when we were seventeen
We took a boat out for an hour
But we preferred the greenery to the scenery of the sea
And tied up in some cosy cove
Till harbour lights appeared across the bay
Into love and out of mind
A poet claimed that loving you has only made me blind
But love is really crystal clear
It's only when you need someone the clouds will soon appear
We changed our world waiting for it all to end
It's such a shame but who's to blame
When two worlds drift apart
Do you remember when laughter was the cure
For all the hard times that we knew
But we forgot to feed the fire - let it all burn down
Warmth returns to cold and poison into pain
It's such a shame but who's to blame
When two worlds drift apart
We were the victims of our age
Now we live on different floors
And go our separate ways
And talk behind closed doors
We changed our world waiting for it all to end
It's such a shame but who's to blame
When two worlds drift apart
We used to sit around the fire
And whisper words the world outside would make no claim to hear
But now we talk an octave higher
In droning tones that don't relate at all to yester year
We changed our world waiting for it all to end
It's such a shame but who's to blame
When two worlds drift apart
Do you remember when we were seventeen
We took a boat out for an hour
But we preferred the greenery to the scenery of the sea
And tied up in some cosy cove
Till harbour lights appeared across the bay
Into love and out of mind
A poet claimed that loving you has only made me blind
But love is really crystal clear
It's only when you need someone the clouds will soon appear
We changed our world waiting for it all to end
It's such a shame but who's to blame
When two worlds drift apart
Do you remember when laughter was the cure
For all the hard times that we knew
But we forgot to feed the fire - let it all burn down
Warmth returns to cold and poison into pain
It's such a shame but who's to blame
When two worlds drift apart
more tracks from the album
1970s
- Lovers
- Fire and Rain
- A Brand New Song
- Needing a Friend
- No One Waits
- Don’t Move Away
- Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
- Nothing Left for Me to Say
- Devil Woman
- Green Light
- I’m Nearly Famous
- Love On (Shine On)
- Help It Along
- Power to All Our Friends
- When Two Worlds Drift Apart
- Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music
From the albums
- Every Face Tells a Story (1977)
- Platinum - The Ultimate Collection (1994)
- 1970s (1998)
Cliff Richard popular songs
- Congratulations
- Devil Woman
- Visions
- We Don’t Talk Anymore
- Ocean Deep
- Shine, Jesus, Shine
- Constantly
- Mistletoe & Wine
- Spider Man
- Power to All Our Friends
- With A Girl Like You
- Ich träume deine träume
- Daddy’s Home
- Every Face Tells a Story (It Never Tells a Lie)
- Little Bitty Pretty One
- Blueberry Hill
- I Wish We’d All Been Ready
- In the Country
- When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart
- Better Than I Know Myself
- All I Ask of You
- Peace in Our Time
- Thief in the Night
- Shout