Memory

There are so many things I don't remember
So many moments that I think are dead to me
Passages in books that I'm quite sure I've read
Storylines and heroes gone for good

It's almost as if there is no continuum
No endless chain of days to call a life
The snapshots follow one another
In a manner that is rather disconnected from reality

(Memory)
Memory, oh so quiet
(Memory)
Where are you?
(Memory)
Where are you?
(Memory)

I once thought dementia came down when you're older
Me, I've forgotten since the day that I was born
Connections that are flooded by the stream of time
Old ideas that I think I had – all gone

The tears in the rain, now lost forever
They glitter only by Tannhäuser Gate
The android sleeping, dreaming of the sheep
How Rutger made him real by nothing but the simple make believe?

(Memory)
Memory, oh so quiet
(Memory)
Where are you?
(Memory)
Where are you?
(Memory)

Yet there are things that I don't want to remember
Things that haunt me when I go to sleep
The ghosts of the past lurk right behind the curtain of reality
The curtain of reality

(Memory)
Memory, oh so quiet
(Memory)
Where are you?
(Memory)
Where are you?
(Memory)

(Memory)
Memory, oh so quiet
(Memory)
Where are you?
(Memory)
Where are you?
(Memory)