KEEP ME IN YOUR MEMORY

Verse 1

I wonder if you ever think about
The person I was when I met you
Before the years changed everything
Before we became strangers too

I still remember little things
The way you laughed when you were tired
The quiet moments in the car
The dreams we never got to find

I kept your voice inside my head
Long after you were gone
Some memories don't ask permission
They simply carry on

Pre-Chorus

And I don't want you to remember me
For all the ways that we went wrong

Remember me for who I was
Before the ending came along

Chorus

KEEP ME IN YOUR MEMORY
When the years have washed away my name
When you can't remember all the words
Or exactly why I came

KEEP ME IN YOUR MEMORY
Not because you couldn't let me go
But because somewhere in your life
I was someone you once called home

Verse 2

There are nights I still imagine
What we'd say if you were here
Would we laugh about the stupid things?
Would we talk about the years?

I don't regret the time we had
Even knowing how it ends
Some of the deepest wounds we carry
Come from people we still love

And maybe that's the cruelest part
Of watching someone disappear
You can forgive them with your mind
And still wish they were here

Pre-Chorus

So if someday you hear my name
And feel a sadness in your chest

Don't hold onto what we lost...

Just remember that we were blessed.

Chorus

KEEP ME IN YOUR MEMORY
When the years have washed away my name
When you can't remember all the words
Or exactly why I came

KEEP ME IN YOUR MEMORY
Not because you couldn't let me go
But because somewhere in your life
I was someone you once called home

Bridge — very intimate

And if there comes a day
When you finally forget my face...

I hope somebody asks you
About the happiest days you had...

And somewhere in that story...

I'm still there.

Long instrumental pause

I don't need you to miss me.

I don't need you to come back.

I just don't want
Everything we were...

To mean nothing.

Final Chorus

KEEP ME IN YOUR MEMORY
Even when the memories hurt
Keep the version of me
That loved you at my best

KEEP ME IN YOUR MEMORY
When you're old and looking back
And if you ever wonder
If our time was real...

It was.

Outro — piano / whispered vocal

Some people leave your life...

But never really leave you.

Keep me in your memory.