i remember

as i’m drivin’ by the sea of pastel colors i remember the pastel days gone by as i’m feelin’ like a pair of star-crossed lovers sharing stories under the pastel sky as i’m lookin’ at the wall of my old photos i remember the one i used to be as i’m readin’ through my old companions’ letters written by the ones who cared to write to me i remember, i remember, i remember every ticking clock, and every open door i remember, i remember, i remember the smiling happy faces from before is the world slowly fading from its music is the world getting duller by the day till the day when i’m too old to use it till the day when all the color goes away you can’t change the past, my grade school teachers told me don’t you dwell on that, there’s nothing you can do but they never said the past won’t trail behind me it’ll build and change and shape and follow you i remember, i remember, i remember all the clothes that i’d grown out of years ago i remember, i remember, i remember the days when days would pass me by so slow sometimes i wish my memory was better sometimes i wish my past would fade away is it good or bad that my memories blur together? if yesterday were in my face, then i know what i’d say toodoloo, goodbye, let me touch the sky of tomorrow cause it’s time to leave behind that pastel hue au revoir, amie, from here on i’m free from my sorrow but every now and then i’ll think of you as i’m watchin’ airplanes lifting off the runway i remember the world i once adored as i’m seein’ children peer into shop windows and the places that i don’t see anymore i remember, i remember, i remember every raindrop on the window by my bed i remember, i remember, i remember every word i ever said every tear i ever shed and as towards the future i depart i’m bringin’ all my memories in my heart