WAYS TO REMEMBER (SONG LYRICS)
WHEN YOUR MEMORY CONSTANTLY FAILS
LISTEN HERE: WAYS TO REMEMBER — SUNO
I put my small change in the same place every day, unless I forget where that place was yesterday.
I tie a string around my little finger, then spend half the morning wondering why or what that was there to remember.
I leave my own number beside the telephone, with a note to call home.
I put an important object right in front of the door, then step around it not remembering what I put it there for.
I write appointments on my calendar, circle them twice, then set an alarm to remind me to check it — which mostly works out quite nice.
[CHORUS] I wrote a note, then another, to remember to first read that note and not the other. I left them somewhere I couldn’t possibly forget… I just haven’t remembered where that is yet.
Sometimes I make checklists of my lists. Still, my forgetfulness persists.
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I cross things off when they’re done, one by one, then wonder why there’s more left over than when I’d begun.
Inside my jacket I leave both my wallet and keys… yet find my jacket in the freezer with the frozen peas.
I concentrate too hard on remembering people’s names… yet somehow forget them just the same.
Familiar ones are becoming harder to find, and some have quietly slipped from my mind.
I set timers to remind me about alarms, and alarms to remind me about timers.
[CHORUS] I wrote a note, then another, to remember to first read that note and not the other. I left them somewhere I couldn’t possibly forget… I just haven’t remembered where that is yet.
Photographs help remember faces. Old songs bring back places.
I retrace my steps, repeat things aloud, use little tricks whenever I can.
I leave myself messages even writing on my hand.
But through all the notes, the lists, the strings, the alarms, and everything else I do — I never needed anything to remember you.
… to remember you.
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