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 Saint Tropez
The whole week a downpour

My first few steps
And my first lost tooth
What, nothing yet?
Well, to tell the truth

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 gray and drizzly morn
I've never felt so high

The day we met
And we shared two beers

Then?

I forget

But that's 19 years

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
A song of the way things were not
Sing of what's lost to you (What's lost to you)
Of times that 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