From "In This Life" Album '86
Lyrics
REMAIN IN MEMORY
You could walk away without a loss
Chances are as chances go
That you won't need me anymore
And measure in your step your vanity
But I know you better than that
You're not so different
I could walk away with no regrets
Where the palest shadows move
The ghosts will roam this room
And linger at the place where we first met
There's no place for me to run
Underneath this sun
While I remain in memory
While I remain in memory
Remember
Remember
Remember me
You could start again without a pause
What's the point in looking back
When there's no turning back
But in your stillest voice you sound assured
Count the heart that settles fast
The iron days are past
While I remain in memory
While I remain in memory
Remember
Remember
Remember me
The place you want
The place you love
The place you own
The place you call your home
Then face the fact
That facing up
Is better than backing down again alone...
While I remain in memory
While I remain in memory
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember me
DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY (Richards)
My face
tears
sorrow
pain
is the picture of your choice
Needs
wants
concerned
But you never hear my voice
Lives
Loves
Dissolve
It's just submission that you see
Bleak
Futile
Fatal
Is there no hope for me?
What's that you say?
Things are so very bad
Maybe I should pray
Paint me a picture
but it's always old and grey
It doesn't have to
have to be that way
Beat
a horse
beat it dead
Til you've pummelled it to dirt
Give
me
dread
So I'll be glad just not to hurt
You see
tomorrow
barren
The vultures picked it clean
Hope
for better
smashed it
It isn't good to dream
What's that you say...
You only have my interests
in your heart
in your soul
You only want to help me
crawl away
and grow old
Haunts
life
announce
Like you just found out something new
Meanings
reasons
answers
But you just tell me what to do
Feed me
Clothe me
Protect me
So I can live with pain
Fires turn to embers
drowning
Beneath your kindly reign
What's that you say...