I recall at the end of it all

You were on your knees and I was standing tall

But is my memory deceiving me?

Was I hanging there while you prayed for me?

Remember how when the show was done,

We were dancing and singing and having some fun,

Then I heard you speak, your voice was bleak---

"What we forget we must repeat."



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I remember the tricks of the trade,

Who got left behind and who made the grade,

And I don't need the pages of some master plan

To tell me what to do or tell me who I am

But when all is said and all is done,

Under the yellow glow of a setting sun,

It really doesn't matter what you have done,

You are blind and deaf and dumb



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I remember an endless space

And the tolling bells of some holy place

Is it a dream that comes back to me

Or a memory that I can barely see?

Not the voices that haunt my mind

Of the friends and lovers I have left behind.



What I see, what comes back to me,

Is a place I cannot find.



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