Song of Forgetting

This house and all these rooms

Last Christmas or last year

Out back the dogwood blooms

Do I really live here?

The paint, the walls

All this glass and wood

You don't recall?

How I wish I could

Our house on Walton Way

The house with the red door

Our trip to San Tropez

The whole week, a downpour

My first few steps

And my first lost tooth

What, nothing yet?

Well, to tell the truth

Jesus

Sing a song of forgetting

A song of the way things were not

Sing of what's lost to you

Of times that you never knew

Sing of not remembering when

Of memories that go unremembered and then

Sing a song of forgetting, again

That day our child was born

Our baby girl's first cry

That grey and drizzly morn

I've never felt so high

The day we met

And we shared two beers

Then?

I forget

But that's nineteen years

Well, tha-that Dr. Mitchell did say there may be some memory loss

It's Dr. Madden

Well, there ya go

What a lovely cure

It's a medical miracle

With a mind so pure

That she doesn't know anything

It's there, I'm sure

'Cause memories don't die (why?)

They don't die (they die)

I'll try

Sing a song of forgetting (sing a song of forgetting, sing a song of forgetting)

A song of the way things were not (a song of the way things were not, the way things were not)

Sing of what's lost to you (what's lost to you, what's lost to you)

Of times that you never knew (you never knew, you never knew)

Sing of not remembering when

Of memories that go unremembered, and then

Sing a song of forgetting

Sing a song of forgetting

Sing a song of forgetting

Again