Allan Taylor - For an Old Friend lyrics

I was away in some distant country When a friend phoned through the news The line was bad and I couldn't hear And the story was confused They say you'd been out drinking And having your usual wild time You were driving home just a little too fast You never made it home Then I remembered the times we travelled around How we'd drive on through the night We were pa**ing smokes and telling jokes As the road stretched out in the light We always shared our money We were always broke it seemed But fame was around the corner And fortune, so we dreamed When I'm drinking in some good-time bar I look around for you It's a habit I've got 'cause I can't forget And I'm wishing it wasn't true Maybe in a corner, behind a drink or two You'd be singing songs, having a good time Like we used to do Let's both get drunk and have a good time Like we used to do Yeah, like we used to do