Vanished Friend

Around the corner I have a friend

In this great city that has no end

Yet the days go by and the weeks pass on
And before I knew it, a year gone

And I never get to see my old friends' face

For life is a swift and a 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

"Tomorrow!" I say "I will call on Jim"
Just to show that I'm thinking of him
But tomorrow 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