ten years from now i'll look at the morning paper
and see pictures of someone i once knew long ago
those days will be gone of problems easily solved
i'll feel so alone away from these noisy halls
so many friends from so many different places
seeing their picture there i'll realise then
they're only faces, they're only faces

when we were best friends back in high school
i thought you'd always be there
and now i look to see all i have left of you
is in the yearbook that i keep upstairs
and when i held you in my arms
i thought you'd always be mine
but now it hurts to see you're just a memory
lost in a moment in time

as i look around the room tonight, i see your eyes
chanting "Seniors! Seniors!" you'll say a hasty good-bye
higher education beckons and most of you will go
and i will miss you more than you will ever know
all of our childhood we rush to grow up, we're almost there
we'll say, "Where has the time gone when we didn't have a care?"

when we were best friends back in high school
i thought you'd always be there
and now i look to see all i have left of you
is in the yearbook that i keep upstairs
and when i held you so tightly in my arms
i thought you'd always be mine
but now it hurts to see you're just a memory
lost in a moment in time