Took a long time - Magna Carta

I left my home in the wide north country

turned my back on the nine to five

I said goodbye to child horizons

I must have made enough to stay alive

You and I were friends from way back

just drinking cognac through the dawn

putting right the wrongs in the laughter and the songs

that said all we knew, all we believed in

And you know it took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya

took a long time, took a long time in the end

took a long time, took a long time just to know ya

to know my friend

now broken rocks don’t make no highway

and fallen stars don’t mend the sky

she is lying here beside me

don’t ever really have to ask a reason why

and you and I we should not worry

for all things they say will find a way

who knows where it ends where the road winds where it bends

God knows, it might roll on forever

and you know it took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya

took a long time, took a long time in the end

took a long time, took a long time just to know ya

to know my friend.

It took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya

took a long time, took a long time in the end

took a long time, took a long time just to know ya

to know my friend.

and it took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya

took a long time, took a long time in the end

took a long time, took a long time just to know ya