[00:00.00]Absent Friends (2020 Remaster) - The Divine Comedy
[00:23.63]Absent friends
[00:27.30]Here's to them
[00:30.78]And happy days
[00:32.64]We thought that they would never end
[00:37.50]Here's to absent friends
[00:45.79]Little Jean Seberg seemed
[00:52.77]So full of life
[00:54.78]But in those eyes such troubled dreams
[00:59.89]Poor little Jean
[01:08.17]Woodbine Willie couldn't rest until he'd
[01:14.94]Given every bloke
[01:17.42]A final smoke before the killin'
[01:22.00]Old Woodbine Willie
[01:37.29]Steve McQueen jumped the first one clean
[01:44.55]But the great escape
[01:46.46]He tried to make was not to be
[01:51.51]Maybe next time Steve
[01:59.60]Laika flew through inky blue
[02:06.84]'Til Laika neared the atmosphere
[02:10.50]And Laika knew
[02:13.74]Laika's life was through oh yeah
[02:29.57]Oscar Wilde was a lonely child
[02:36.41]He fought and won acceptance from the world
[02:40.85]They smiled they laughed they praised
[02:43.73]They drove poor Oscar to his grave
[03:02.63]Absent friends here's to them
[03:09.79]And happy days
[03:11.37]We thought that they would never end
[03:17.09]But they always end
[03:20.21]Raise your glasses then to absent friends