Some Memories Never Die

Double-decker number nine

Let out a sound all wound up like a siren

And I felt her shudder next to me

Remembering the air-raids in the night

The last fifty years just shot right by



Some memories never die



Like a curl of smoke, the notes

Bounced off the Apollo theatre walls

And all the words fell to the floor

As two thousand mouths all sighed

The fingers stick out, the cabs roll by



Some memories never die



Trade thoughts of guilt for shame

A simple word's not that hard to say...?



You act like an even plane

Is to bleach everything in your sight

(does your mother have to wonder

Where you were stolen in the night?)

Your silence will haunt you where you lie



Some memories never die