Laura From Memory

Laura you can’t write back now

And you can’t stop my time running out

You can’t laugh and you can’t sing

And you can’t share the things I think

But the wall, the clouds the misty light

The pylons reaching to the sky

The bridge, the ramp the ferry road

Everything I can’t let go

Your face your smile your words your breath

The cheap mementos I’ve got left

The look of fear ‘don’t leave me now’

Don’t leave me now

I was lured by the pull of the words

Abandoned then cut by the broken chords

What we do, we do for love

Memories are dust and that’s never enough

Laura give me one last night

Before you take that long, dark drive

One last time all on our own

Just us, a room and words. Alone.

And the world, the seas the beach the sound

The towns that nearly brought you down

The dread of night, the fear of dawn

The certainty this life’s gone wrong

The sleeps, the pills, the tears the rage

The years of hope, the missing days

Let them all just slip away

Slip away now

I was lured by the pull of the words

Abandoned then cut by the broken chords

What we do, we do for love

Memories are dust and that’s never enough

We wait, we hope, we pray

For the night to go away

I was lured by the pull of the words

Abandoned then cut by the broken chords

What we do, we do for love

Memories are dust and that’s never enough