My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in? Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete Under skies all smoky blue-green I can't forsake a Dixie dead-shake So we danced the sidewalk clean New Orleans is sinking man, and I don't wanna swim

No they can't take that away from me There are many, many crazy things That will keep me loving you And with your permission May I list a few The way you wear your hat The way you sip your tea The memory of all that The way your smile just beams

In the wee, wee hours That's when I think of you In a wee little room I sit alone and think of you One little song For a fading memory You say, but yet I wonder If your love was ever true I wonder if you still remember

We were tangled up in a blanket on the sand And the moonlight, watchin' that tide roll in Her skin on mine, the only thing I got on my mind Is a two-piece memory of her and me layin' on the beach And her sunburnt lips on me, yeah, her sunburnt lips Back

No right words that I could say I couldn’t keep you here with a melody and now you’re just a memory But girl you’ll always be, in every song I sing Cause you’re in every song I sing, you’re in everything I do In every breath I take and every I miss you

(I can't stop loving you) (I can't stop wanting you) It's useless to say I've made up my mind To live in memory of the lonesome times So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday (Dreams of yesterday) Those happy hours that we once knew Tho' long

I am the voice of never, never land The innocence, the dreams of every man Every chimney, every moonlit sight Every memory that you hold dear I am the empty crib of Peter Pan, A soaring kite against the blue, blue sky, I am the story that will read you

To another long work week gone I might stay for one more round But don't think for a second I'm out to drown your memory Or I might close this place down Baby you ain't worth the whiskey. I don't care that you done me wrong 'Cause I've already moved on I

First Verse I am yours. However distant you may be, There blows no wind but wafts your scent to me, There sings no bird but calls your name to me. Each memory that has left its trace with me Lingers forever as a part of me. I am yours.

I wish that I took more photographs of us Wish that I took more photographs of us Just a memory of you is not enough Said goodbye, now our love's collecting dust Oh oh oh, oh oh oh Said goodbye now, our love's collecting dust I can't believe I left you