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Remembering

Lyrics and Music ©2010 by Bill Roper


I wrote the chorus for this on the road on the way to ConText, then finished it up at the con. It has no actual sci-fi content.

Country content, on the other hand...

(Chorus)
G           Am      D
I want to remember
                  G      Em
What I need to forget.
                   Am     C
So I'm fanning the ember
               D
And keeping it lit.
                 Am          D
It's been such a long time.
                       G    Em
I should be letting it go.
     Am                       D
It's just another thing in my mind
                     G
That I don't need to know.

    D                          C              G 
I remember sunny mornings, I remember days of rain.
    D                               C               G
I remember streaks of water washing down the window pane.
    Em            A                C                D
I remember in the evening when the sky was dark and deep.
    Am              C              D               G
I remember the last night I didn't drink myself to sleep.

There were days when I was happy, though not for quite a while.
There were days you'd hear me singing and light up with a smile.
There were days we were together, there were days we were apart,
Until the day you found you had to go and break my heart.

(Bridge)
       Am                   C            G     Em
Though you are gone, you're always on my mind.
   Am               C                  D                G
It seems the ties between us are still strong enough to bind.
      D                                C             G
And I have no faith in science, nor in magic, nor in prayer,
    Am           C                    D               G
For none of them possess the power to fill your empty chair.

(Final chorus)
     Am                       D
It's just another thing in my mind
                     G
That I don't need to know.