Around 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.
"Tommorow" I say "I will call
on Jim."
"Just to show that I'm thinking
of him."
But tomorow comes and tomorrow
goes,
And the 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.
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"It's not what you did do in
life that you regret,
It's what you didn't
do."