When the world gets me down I find myself

Reaching for that old leather-bound book

And there he smiles the gentle smile I know so well

And I am back where I used to be

Couldn't speak when I saw you in town

I picked you out easily from the crowd

A mirror image of your high school photograph

You took me back where we used to be

So won't you be my distant guiding star

I seem to lose my way among the crowd

Once in a while in a little while

Come light my way from where you are

Willows spoke willows swayed to and from

As we walked hand in hand by the riverflow

But now the views have changed that I used to know so well

Can't take me back where we used to be