Memory

Elaine Paige

Compositor: Andrew Lloyd Webber / Billy Strange / Country Joe McDonald / Donald Baldwin / Egbert VanAlstyne / Jeffrey Bowen / Kathy Wakefield / Scott David / T.S. Eliot / Trevor Nunn

Memory
Turn your face to the moonlight
Let your memory lead you
Open up enter in
If you find there
The meaning of what happiness is
Then a new life will begin

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then

I remember
The time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory
Live again
Burnt out ends of smoky days

The stale cold smell of morning
A streetlamp dies
Another night is over
Another day is dawning

Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Sunlight through the trees in summer
Endless masquerading
Like a flower as the dawn is breaking
The memory is fading

Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the Sun

If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day
Has begun midnight not a sound from the pavement

Has the Moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight, the withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory, all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

Every streetlamp seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters and the streetlamp gutters
And soon
It will be morning

Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
A streetlamp dies; another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with my memory
Of my days in the Sun
If you touch me, you'll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day has begun