Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends

After they were presented a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on February 23, 2003 , the duo reunited for a tour of United States (and Toronto, Canada), which ran from October 16 to December 21, 2003. That was their first tour in over two decades. The tour's special guest was The Everly Brother which is Simon & Garfunkel's influence. This tour was entitled "Old Friends".
Simon wrote this song when he was 20, and had an idea to performing it at age 62 "is still shocking to me," he said.
"my friendship with Artie is back to where it was when we were 12 years old," Simon told "We're laughing and kidding around all the time. It's a lot of fun."
"We are remarkably like brothers in our musical calling and our senses of humor." agreed Garfunkel.

Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends

Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears