how much do we remember from the songs that we heard?
how much do we remember from the people that we've hurt?
how much do we remember from the hands that we held?
and how much from the beliefs we upheld?

how much do we remember from the secrets that we told?
how much do we remember from the heroes we extolled?
how much do we remember from the letters that we wrote?
and how much from the poems we learnt by rote?

how much will we remember from the things now we decry?
and how much from the news that make us cry?

sometimes i just can't remember
all the things we did together
the wind, the dust, the mornings will remain

but they're never gonna be the same again
and my life could never be the same again