Where have you been my long lost friend?
We haven’t talked since way back when
How is life with your new love?
I hope she’s something from above
Something happened yesterday
I need to talk to you
Now I’m finding out you moved away
I’m reaching out to you today
I saw you walking in the past
You said your love would always last
Then I saw you all alone
You said your heart had turned to stone
Nothing matters anyway
I thought I heard her say to you
Nothing matters anyway
Then she walked away from you
There was laughter in the air
The children all are there
Playing in the warming sun
Counting dreamers one by one
I’m living in the olden days
I’ve found my friends along the way
Some of are here with me right now
Some have disappeared somehow
Where did all the people go?
Why did they fade away from me?
They meant so much to me and now I know
That they're here to stay in my heart
[January 2019 Minneapolis version on piano]
I’m living in the olden days
I’ve found my friends along the way
Some of them are here right now
But some have disappeared somehow
Where did all the people go?
Why did they fade away?
They meant so much to me and now I know
That they're here to stay in my heart
When did all these people come?
I see so many on the roads
How can they travel in the street
There’s just so many, I don’t know
Too many people in this world
It’s not the life I know
We have the room to move
We have the room to grow
But now
I think we’re living way too fast
I’m longing for a day that lasts
I’m searching now for my old friends
Some say I’m living in the past
Something happened yesterday
See how it slipped away
Something happened yesterday
Back in the olden days