You remind me of a few of my famous friends Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends You remind me of a former love that I once knew And you carry a little speech with you We were holding hands walking through the middle of the street It's fine

You've changed You've forgotten the words, I love you Each memory that we've shared You ignore every star above you I can't realize you've ever cared You're not the angel I once knew No need to tell me that we're through It's all over now That sparkle in

Here's a song I sing for you About a girl that I once knew She lived in a great big house With golden gates where servants bowed Unashamed I'd sit outside and wait for hours Hoping that she'd climb down from her ivory towers This beautiful girl as pretty

I can't stop lovin' you To live in memory Of old lonesome times I can't stop wantin' you So I'll just live my life So I've made up my mind It's useless to say In dreams of yesterday Those happy hours That we once knew

(Woohoo hoo hoo hoo) I never knew that a woman could change me Never gonna be the same I once was blind but now I can see She took my soul She ripped it out Left me here with my knees to the ground Never gonna be the same (never gonna be the same) You

Oh, I hate it when that happens to me Dog bites man, man loses girl Well, I once knew a man who was going insane He let love chase him right up a tree It took the police and a fire truck just to bring him back down It made the front page of the paper,

No one will make it out alive And crush them Letting go has never been my thing Lets wave one last goodbye (wave goodbye) to this nightmare that we once knew This is a tragedy The sun is silent in this place (the sun is silent) throw these hopes into the

I been doin' fine without you Forgettin' all the love we once knew And girl, I ain't the one that slammed that door But now you say you've changed your thinkin' But I ain't got a heart for breakin' So go and pick your bags up off my floor 'Cause love

Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind I realized that Illinois was more than I could stand They

Memories of you Waking skies at sunrise Every sunset too Seems to be bringing me Here and there, everywhere Scenes that we once knew And they all just recall (Oh) how I wish I could forget those (Those) happy yesteryears