Best of Friends

Picked up the paper this morning
 Could not believe what I saw
 A friend of mine was killed
 Runnin' from the law
 I could still see the face of my old friend
 In the picture that stared back at me
 And through the tears I went back through the years to remember
 The times that we were
 Playin' pirates in the school yard, singin'
 Soldiers in the fields
 We were dreamin'
 Brothers in blood 'til the very end
 We were best of friends
 Best of friends
 Always hang together, forever
 Thought we'd always be that way
 But in time you grow up
 And you slip away
 It was thirteen years since I'd seen him
 This man that I no longer knew
 His mother, god bless her
 Asked me if I'd say a word or two
 Lookin' out in a room full of strangers
 I didn't know quite what to say
 All I could tell was of two old friends
 And some long gone summer days of
 Playin' pirates in the school yard, singin'
 Soldiers in the fields
 We were dreamin'
 Brothers in blood 'til the very end
 Friends like him don't come very often
 You never treasure them while there's time
 And if they slip away
 You gotta somehow say
 You're still on my mind
 So your memory's all I have left now
 These words are all I can give
 And from time to time I turn back in my mind
 To the place where you'll always live
 Playin' pirates in the school-yard, singin'
 Soldiers in the fields
 We were dreamin'
 Brothers in blood 'til the very end