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evieconrad · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Northumberland

Hi

This question has everyone stumped.

What did the following lines come from?

"I know that people come to change... we'll grow apart. We'll pass, with age... And so our friendship is a phase... But how I've loved these days."

The words were printed in an old, British high-school yearbook from 1993, which I saw at a jumble sale. I liked the verse and wanted to find the complete song (or poem) but it has proved an impossible task. I'm sure I copied them down correctly but they may have been misquoted in the book.

Billy Joel's "I've Loved These Days" has been ruled out, as has "Cause We Are Friends", a poem which borrowed some of the lines in 2003. It can be seen on "allpoetry.com". It's supposedly the work of a 14 year-old girl from Missouri, called "lowridersgurl". She would have been four, when the lines appeared in the high school yearbook.

The most likely explanation is that "Cause We Are Friends" and the lines I saw in the book came from the same (pre-1993) source.