cold winter's day

an old friend, he called me on christmas, to see how i was, i told him i wasn't complaining much, i said, "come over and see me, we'll talk for a while", he said, "good, i hate phones, i'm only a mile away", it's been a cold winter's day, it's been a long black night, he said that his life wasn't going, quite like he had planned, he didn't know it would be so hard to. just trying to raise up a family, a car and new shoes, sometimes i feel like i'm going to lose it all, i poured us more bourbon and water, and toasted the clash, then we started to laugh, oh yeah