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 plays the remember-when game on me
It's a tune that points its finger at me
And I drag it along behind me
That tune that knows it all by heart
It says, Remember your loves
Remember, since it's your turn now
With all your memories weighing you down
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 I love yous from the fourteenth of July
That we buy at a discount
Offers of as much as you like, by the bundle
And all that just to run into
Right at the corner of the street
The tune that recognized me
Listen to the racket it makes at me
As if all my past were parading by
You have to save some sorrow for later
I've got a whole scale of it on this beating tune
That beats like a wooden heart