Any Friend of Time (Is a Friend of Mine)

[couchgrouch]

Any Friend of Time(Is a Friend of Mine)There's a twelve-pack of beer at my sideand a twelve-pack of hours in the nightthough it's my fingers that pop the first canit feels like it's held tight by hands of timeand any friend of time is a friend of mineany stranger who remembers my primewhatever takes me once more,back to dreams I lived beforeany friend of time is a friend of minewhen night is a leaf falling soft and quietI let my heart see the songs of John Hiattbecause for ev'ry tune I feel and hearmy younger days draw closer by the yearand any friend of time is a friend of mineany whisper who remembers my primewhatever takes me once more,back to dreams I lived beforeany friend of time is a friend of minethere's a woman downtown, and I see her aroundwalking the cold and lonely avenueI drive by and stare, cos her ruby red hairreminds me of a girl I once knewone night she climbed in and I saw her up closeheavy make-up hid the face of a ghost'neath a red wig her roots had long faded greyshe said, "old working girls need to wipe the years awayand any friend of time is a friend of mineany shadow who remembers my primewhatever takes me once more,back to dreams I lived beforeany friend of time is a friend of mine"(c)2004 Robert George