Can Old Lovers Ever Just Be Friends? Lyrics – Tom Odell

Read the complete Can Old Lovers Ever Just Be Friends? Lyrics by Tom Odell along with song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Tom Odell’s music, you can also explore The End of Suffering and When I Close My Eyes, two other songs by Tom Odell.

[Verse 1]
Here we are
Two strangers standing in the doorway of a bar
(??) talking about the past
Easy to laugh about it now
It wasn’t so long ago, it hurt just to hear your name

[Chorus 1]
Can old lovers ever just be friends?
One drink, it all comes flooding back again
You can nearly smile
I think I haven’t felt like this in a while
When we look out at the rain
And we see how much our lives have changed
Our future’s rearranged and somehow just the same

[Verse 2]
And here we are
Two strangers standing on the pavement by a car
You rest your head upon my arm
Easy to laugh about it now
I watch your cigarette burn out
On the pavements

[Chorus 2]
Can old lovers ever just be friends?
One drink, can go their separate ways again
You and I won’t fight
I think it’s time that I said goodbye
But I’m lucky that I came
Just to see your eyes still have their flame
Their beauty and their pain
It feels like yesterday

[Post-Chorus]
That I was yours
And you were mine

And we were living in paradise
(??)
(??)
(??), this life we almost made

[Chorus 1]
Can old lovers ever just be friends?
One drink, can go our separate ways again
And you can nearly smile
I think I haven’t felt like this in a while
When we look out at the rain
And we see how much our lives have changed
Our future’s rearranged and somehow just the same