No no they can't take that away from me No they can't take that away from me We may never never meet again On the bumpy road to love Still I'll always, always keep the memory of The way you hold your knife The way we danced till three The way you wear

Leave out all the rest When my time comes Forget the wrong that I've done Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed And don't resent me And when you're feeling empty Keep me in your memory I can't be who you are So, if you're asking me, I want you

Deep within the corners of my mind There'll be a place for you and me I keep a memory of your faces And I only pull it out when I long for your embrace I'm haunted by your smile As it promises me joys like a journey to a tropic isle It's not hard to see

And I'm living on memories of you Can't eat when I'm hungry My days are as dark as my nights And I see no sunshine in sight Your memory keeps blocking my view Can't sleep when I'm tired And all of these tears Can't put out this fire Your memory just

Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart? I tried so hard, my dear, to show that you're my every dream Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart Another

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

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

Deep within the corners of my mind There'll be a place for you and me I keep a memory of your faces And I only pull it out when I long for your embrace I'm haunted by your smile As it promises me joys like a journey to a tropic isle It's not hard to see

Chase that sun 'til it runs out of sky And if your memory's still too strong Honey, honey Honey you still prey on my mind So I jump up find me a mountain Shake off the sheep I been countin' I'll keep movin' on and get longer gone I tried thumbin', a

No no they can't take that away from me No they can't take that away from me We may never never meet again On the bumpy road to love Still I'll always, always keep the memory of The way you hold your knife The way we danced till three The way you wear