Don't forget the sound of the dripping water
That slowly fell onto the tile that day
The words fell in slow motion from your lips
And hours later the water still dripped in the silence
As you sat and stared at the wall

It's so dangerous to think that the sunlight is going to win
When it loses it feels like the world is covered in an icy mist
And for just a moment the wind lingered on the doorstep
Before continuing on to further and further lands
But in that second the cool breeze felt cool on your cheek

I remember that cheek of yours I think
I remember everything
I remember when I couldn't remember
Which is always
And forever and forever

Forget all the insistent lies of the mountains and the mysteries
Cradle the summertime in the hands of the clocks
And the shoes that cover bare feet
Tap tap tapping down the dusty cobblestone streets
And clap clap clapping like old amphibian speak
The frogs in the streams
Croaking at night
The sound everywhere but they're out of sight
Out of sight like Roman castles
Driving in Rome is such a hassle
Snaking through traffic like a renegade bike
Red light green light blue light white
Fruits tumbled down the steps
And into the sink
White doves flew down for a springtime drink
In the halls of summertime the ocean is the chorus
The churchbells ring in the echo of the seashells
I listened to a seashell sitting on an airplane
And light years ago I was dancing in the rain
Memories float like Saturn in the sea
Drifting into the glassy gleam
Sharp as a knife the crystalline shards
Fracture and splinter and break all apart
The icy remnants of icicle hotels
That the hermit crabs live in
When they leave their seashells
It was many months before the spark reached Paraguay
Sixteen months until the kingdom swayed
And let out electricity to all the earth
The waterfalls flowed, the gates in rebirth
The stained glass windows revolving in time
A revolving door with tinkling chimes
And I was listening to the sigh of the sea
And wondering where were the whispering trees
If it was easy if it was easy if it was easy
I would have done it long ago

And their hands were in their pockets and their heads down against the wind
And instead of twelve the clocks were counting back from ten
Was it the past heading into the future or the future moving into the past
I really felt like the future was my past

So in seventeen days I'll be on the moon
In seventeen weeks I'll be mumbling tunes
In seventeen months I'll be crossing the shore
In seventeen years I'll be at your door

It was the same door all those years ago
Do you remember do you remember do you remember
The earth remembers
I never remember anything

Sixteen glasses of orange juice spilled on the glass
And through the orange puddles you could see through the glass
The sleigh bells carried off into the distance
And a millennium went by in a moment and a moment in an instant