Divine Comedy - Absent Friends lyrics

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Absent Friends<br />

Absent friends, here's to them<br />

And happy days, we thought that they would never end.<br />

Here's to absent friends.<br />

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Little Jean Seberg seemed<br />

So full of life, but in those eyes such troubled dreams.<br />

Poor little Jean.Woodbine Willie couldn't rest until he'd<br />

Given every bloke a final smoke before the killing.<br />

Old Woodbine Willie.<br />

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Steve McQueen jumped the first one clean<br />

But the great escape he'd tried to make was not to be.<br />

Maybe next time Steve.<br />

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Laika flew through inky blue<br />

'Til Laika neared the atmosphere and Laika knew<br />

Laika's life was through.<br />

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Oscar Wilde was a lonely child.<br />

He fought and won acceptance from the world.<br />

They smiled, they laughed, they praised,<br />

They drove poor Oscar to his grave.<br />

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Absent friends, here's to them,<br />

And happy days, we thought that they would never end,<br />

But they always end.<br />

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Raise your glasses then to absent friends.