Over The High Side

Summer nights we'd hang around our usual crowd
Doing our best not to get home early                   [2001 version: Doing our level best to look surly]
Killing time by kicking walls and talking loud
Doing our level best to look surly                     [Wishing to hell our hair wasn't curly]
We laughed at the same old stories time and again
Together so much we believed we'd be always friends

But what can I say to you now?                         [And what can I say to you now?]
What can I say to you now?
It's been a long long time
Too long

What can I say to you now?
What can I say to you now?
It's been a long long time
Too long

We both got weekend jobs to raise the money down
Me for my first guitar, you for your bike
But in the end I didn't even know when you left town   [But in the end I never even knew that you'd left town]
I tried to call you once, but - you know what it's like
No-one at your number knew your name
For all I knew you'd gone over the high side in the rain

What can I say to you now?                             [And what can I say to you now?]
What can I say to you now?
It's been a long long time
Too long

What can I say to you now?                             [And what can I say to you now?]
What can I say to you now?
It's been a long long time
Too long
Too long
Too long

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