The Forgetting

The Forgetting
11/21/2005
by Tom Flannery copyright 2005

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Memories dusty on the shelf
pictures picture someone else
wanna go home and find you there
wanna go home but I don't know where

'cause it's the forgetting all over again
the forgetting every now and then
it's all getting away from me
it's the forgettin' it won't leave me be
it's the forgettin' it won't leave me be

One day you're here and the next you're gone
something in my head just feels wrong
like a screen door locked from the inside
Lord knows I've prayed...Lord knows I've tried

but it's the forgetting all over again
the forgetting every now and then
it's all getting away from me
it's the forgettin' it won't leave me be
it's the forgettin' it won't leave me be

I can recognize that things have changed
like a chess board that's been rearranged
never much for talk but this much I'll say
it's the forgettin' that makes me act this way

It creeps like the devil with all the time in the world
then flutters like a soft flag just unfurled
watch the cold breeze blow us all away
here tomorrow....but gone today

it's the forgetting all over again
the forgetting every now and then
it's all getting away from me
it's the forgettin' it won't leave me be
it's the forgettin' it won't leave me be

I can recognize that things have changed
like a chess board that's been rearranged
never much for talk but this much I'll say
it's the forgettin' that makes me act this way

Memories dusty on the shelf
pictures picture someone else
wanna go home and find you there
wanna go home but I don't know where

'cause it's the forgetting all over again
the forgetting every now and then
it's all getting away from me
it's the forgettin' it won't leave me be
it's the forgettin' it won't leave me be