Conversations Lyrics

An old friend came by here yesterday

I said I knew him well, I said I knew him well

And he talked to me over a cup of tea

And spoke of love and war, and spoke of love and war

But nothing is so fair, he said, while speaking to the floor

As the war within ourselves

An old lover came by here yesterday

I said I knew her well, I said I knew her well

And she touched me with her tenderness and said

I wish you'd never gone, I wish you'd never gone

But all your life is moving on, and we are not the same

But nothing is the same

And all our conversations

Are just conversations to me

An old friend came by here just to say

Nothing is for sale, nothing ever will

When he turned away, I asked him to explain

Which he never wouldn't do, this time it wasn't true

But old friends are like photographs

And mean just what they say, and mean just what they say

Now my old lover is another one who tries

To tell me who I am, and tell me who to be

But her body is like an ocean

And I could not turn away, I couldn't turn away

And no one ever turns away

Nobody is so proud, nobody is that free

But all our conversations

Are just conversations to me