That tune that haunts me day and night
That tune wasn't born today
It comes from as far back as I do
Dragged along by a hundred thousand musicians
One day that tune will drive me crazy
A hundred times I've wanted to say why
But it cut me off
It always speaks before me
And its voice covers my voice
It comes running up behind me
It pulls the remember-this trick on me
It's a tune that points its finger at me
And I drag it along with me
That tune that knows it all by heart
It says, Remember your loves
Remember, since it's your turn now
With your memories in your arms
And I see again those who remain
My twenty years beat like a drum
I see gestures fighting each other
The whole comedy of love
To that tune that goes on and on
Some July 14th 'I love you's
Stacks of 'will you's in bundles
And all that just to fall
Right at the street corner
On the tune that recognized me
Listen to the racket it's making at me
As if all my past were marching by
Gotta save some sorrow for later
I've got a whole solfège of it on this beating tune
That beats like a wooden heart