To Me They'Ve Become Strangers

To me they've become strangers dear friends I used to know From them I do live distant and apart we seemed to grow In the school-yard in the lunch hour I joined them playing football How come the happiest memories are the saddest to recall? Like me time is catching up on them they have known a better day Primary schoolboys of the fifties the years have left them gray Their children mums and dads now and time is ticking on On looking back the Seasons where have the decades gone? To me they've become strangers I've not seen them for years But for my fading memories I've lost the urge for tears Like me they have grown older to father time we bow But the present is what matters for we must live in the now The past has gone forever but the memories remain And in fancy with them I play ball in the old school-yard again.