Thank you for being a friend Traveled down the road and back again Your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant I'm not ashamed to say I hope it always will stay this way My hat is off, won't you stand up and take a bow And if you threw a party Invited everyone you knew You would see, the biggest gift would be from me And the card attached would say, Thank you for being a friend Thank you for being a friend Thank you for being a friend Thank you for being a friend If it's a car you lack I'd surely buy you a cadillac Whatever you need, anytime of the day or night I'm not ashamed to say I hope it always will stay this way My hat is off, won't you stand up and take a bow And when we both get older With walking canes and hair of gray Have no fear, even though it's hard to hear I will stand real close and say, Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you) Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you) Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you) Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you) Let me tell you bout a friend (I want to thank you) Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you) Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you) Thank you for being a friend And when we die and float away Into the night, the Milky Way You'll hear me call, as we ascend I'll see you there, then once again Thank you for being a friend Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you) Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you) Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you) Thank you for being a friend Whoa, tell you about a friend (Thank you right now, for being a friend) Thank you for being a friend (I wanna tell you right now, and tell you again) Thank you for being a friend (I wanna thank you, thank you, for being a friend) Thank you for being a friend

When we were younger, I had trusted you with everything I could've handed you my life, you were always right Said I was yours to keep And now you're old and ill and you're barely left with anything Was it worth the alcohol abuse? Worth a drink or two? Why do I love you? But it's for nothing that you did Do I forgive you for the love you didn't give? But I burn my tongue, seems I'm always wrong for something But I say, "Thank you for nothing" In my father's words, "Patience is a virtue to get you by" But you're a burden in your head, pretty close to dead But you stay around But you got told 'bout this instead, you're young and sick without anything Was it worth the alcohol abuse? Worth the drinking with your crew? Why do I love you? But it's for nothing that you did Do I forgive you for the love you didn't give? But I burn my tongue, seems I'm always wrong for something So I say, "Thank you for nothing" Mmh, mmh, nothing Mmh, mmh, eh, nothing Why do I love you? But it's for nothing that you did? (Nothing that you did) Do I forgive you for (and do I forgive you for) The love you didn't give? (The love you didn't give?) I love you, but it's for nothing that you did Do I forgive you for nothing?

Maybe she was smilin' in the mirror Maybe I was too, 'cause I was stoned Singin' every sad song on the juke-box one more time Honey, they were hittin' close to home And I said - Maybe this'll make you think I'm crazy Honey, don't feel lonesome if you do But if you wanna make a young man happy one more time I'd sure like to spend the night with you Chorus: And she said - Stranger Shut out the light and lead me Somewhere - shut out the shadows, too And while we lay there, makin' believe you love me Stranger, could I believe in you Maybe you got all you got together Maybe you keep rollin' like a stone Maybe some old lonesome song'll take you by surprise And leave you just a little more alone Chorus: Singing - Stranger Shut out the light and lead me Somewhere - shut out the shadows, too And while we lay there, makin' believe you love me Stranger, could I believe in you Chorus: Keep Singing - Stranger Shut out the light and lead me Somewhere - shut out the shadows, too And while we lay there, makin' believe you love me Stranger, could I believe in you

See the ruin on the hill, where the smoke is hangin' still Like an echo of an age-long forgotten There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones And a roof that fell before the beams were rotten See, Saul Darby loved his wife and he labored all his life To provide her with material possessions And he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone And the building soon became his sole obsession Oh, it took 300 days for the timbers to be raised And the silhouette was seen for miles around And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky But it only took one night to bring it down When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground Though they shared a common bed, there was precious little said In the moments that he set aside for sleepin' 'Cause his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build And he never heard young Helen Darby weepin' Then one night he heard a sound as he laid his pencil down And he traced it to her door and turned the handle And the pale light of the moon through the windows of the room Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled Oh, it took 300 days for the timbers to be raised And the silhouette was seen for miles around And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky But it only took one night to bring it down When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground Thank you

It's sad to see we may never be the way we were before We don't believe in the magic of the music anymore And everything's older now and colder and grey Oh, darlin' I believe there's got to be a better way. It seems to me we've forgotten how to let our feelings show We seem to be so much farther from the dreams we used to know And too many more, my friend, are dying today Oh darlin' I believe there's got to be a better way. Listen to the fallen angels learning how to spread their wings. How will they make it all alone? Look into the children's laughter Tell me what tomorrow brings for those so far away from home. And I can say I'm not sorry for the things we tried to be But I'm afraid what we're heading toward is up to you and me 'Cause we got a choice; the future is ours you see We got a chance to change today Oh, darlin' don't you believe there's got to be a better way 'Cause we got a choice; the furture is ours you see. We got a chance to change it today. Oh I believe together there can be a better way Oh if we believe together we can build a better way.

Darkness had us covered when we split from Minnesota in the morning In the rain Black as I was feeling and the street was slick and shiny as a snake Each of us was a-humming to a half forgotten echo Hangin' over in the brain Tappin' time and thinking of the time we never had the time to take Losing to the rising cost of living high and loving hard And leavin' every yesterday behind Learning every bridge you cross, is burning down before you're off and Running Like the devil just in time Chorus: Breakin' any ties before they bind you Taking any comfort you can find Running like you're running out of time Take it all-take it easy-till it's over-understanding When you're headin' for the border lord You're bound to cross the line Good lookin' women every time you stumble Waitin' there to catch you when you fall Gettin' to you bad enough to let em Keep you backin' up till just before your back's against the wall Chorus: Breakin' any ties before they bind you Takin' any comfort you can find Runnin' like you're runnin' out of time Take it all-take it easy-till it's over-understanding When you're headin' for the border lord You're bound to cross the line