Songwriter: Ben Watt
Producer: Everything But The Girl
[Verse 1]
Not for the first time I look back
On all those years
Not for the last time names will ring
In my ears
When there was just a gang of us
Storming the town by train and bus
A moment of thought this heart sends
To old friends
[Verse 2]
Not for the first time I look back
On my first love
Unable to speak or think or move
Hand in glove
What of it now and where is he
He who once meant so much to me?
Because we are not, I can't pretend
Now old friends
[Bridge]
I was told love should hold old friends
I was told love should hold old friends
When you leave you will close the door behind you
Don't we always
And time won't make amends
To old friends
[Verse 3]
Standing here with my arm around you
Life's moved on
And all its borderlines
Are being redrawn
The winter has come, the roads are white
Everyone's home late tonight
May we stay or will it depend
As old friends
In the end still old friends?
[Outro]
Oh, old friends
Old friends
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh, old friends
Not for the first time I look back
On all those years
Not for the last time names will ring
In my ears
When there was just a gang of us
Storming the town by train and bus
A moment of thought this heart sends
To old friends
[Verse 2]
Not for the first time I look back
On my first love
Unable to speak or think or move
Hand in glove
What of it now and where is he
He who once meant so much to me?
Because we are not, I can't pretend
Now old friends
[Bridge]
I was told love should hold old friends
I was told love should hold old friends
When you leave you will close the door behind you
Don't we always
And time won't make amends
To old friends
[Verse 3]
Standing here with my arm around you
Life's moved on
And all its borderlines
Are being redrawn
The winter has come, the roads are white
Everyone's home late tonight
May we stay or will it depend
As old friends
In the end still old friends?
[Outro]
Oh, old friends
Old friends
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh, old friends
- Worldwide (1991)
- Worldwide (Deluxe Edition) (2013)
- Missing
- Night and Day
- Wrong
- Five Fathoms
- Rollercoaster
- Mirrorball
- Single
- Walking Wounded
- Tender Blue
- Downhill Racer (Kenny Dope Mix)
- British Summertime
- The Heart Remains a Child
- Lullaby of Clubland (Matty Heilbronn Soulflower instrumental)
- Letting Love Go
- Charmless Callous Ways
- Fighting Talk
- The Spice of Life
- The Dustbowl
- Disenchanted
- Never Could Have Been Worse
- Love Is Strange
- Walking Wounded (Spring Heel Jack Hard vocal mix)
- Ugly Little Dreams
- Temperamental (Da Deepah Dub)