Lyrics to
Old Friend

This version of Old Friend was released by Chris De Burgh in 1975.

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Old friend, so you’re in trouble again, you ask me today,
To try and find a little time, and maybe buy a glass of wine,
Old friend, I’m coming through…

Old friend, Yes I remember you, always a smile on your face,
Oh memory from years before, an old man and a little boy,
Old friend, I remember you…

You used to take me fishing down by the wishing well,
One day you threw a wish in, and we listened while it fell,
And you made a wish…

“When the years are heavy, and my heart is growing cold,
Well I wish when the evening comes that there’ll always
be…Some old friend who’ll miss me too…”

Well I do, so old friend I’m coming through…
Yes, for you I’ll always find the time, we will have a bottle
of wine, old friend, I’m here by your side, Oh, to the very end,
Old friend…I miss you too…My dear old friend…
Old friend…Old friend…

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About Lyrics and Old Friend by Chris De Burgh

When you decide to study the lyrics to Old Friend, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Chris De Burgh. Some of the lyrics to Old Friend have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chris De Burgh and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Old Friend if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Old Friend" means the words set to the music of Old Friend, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chris De Burgh. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Old Friend and the lyrics to Old Friend are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chris De Burgh who came here looking just for the lyrics to Old Friend, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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