Don Chaffer - People Go By Like A Flame lyrics

I had to take someone to the airport just this morning I had forgotten about all the faces Everybody that I saw was going to or coming from different places But they all looked the same crushed and shy or loud and angry Everybody just walked along without looking at anyone I ran into a friend of mine from my junior high days I spent the night at his house once I remember that night vividly We were nearly strangers now. It'd been so long And he was headin' off to Germany It was him and his girlfriend, and he was gonna study French there Or maybe it was it German CHORUS People go by like a flame And you never even know their name You might get warm You might get burned But either way a flame is not the sun That rises every day His girlfriend wasn't there when I showed up and I remember thinking how lonely to go to Germany alone Then he told me that she'd be there soon But it still seemed really sad to me He still looked like he was on his own Now he was smart. He knew a lot But I wanted to ask if him he was okay There was just something in his eyes BRIDGE Late at night, the moon is bright And the fields are silver-gray And no, it's true it ain't no sun But it's pretty anyway