[Verse 1: Jennifer Hudson]

Memory, turn your face to the moonlight

Let your memory leave you

Open up, enter it

If you find there, the meaning of what happiness is

Then a new life will begin

[Verse 2: Jennifer Hudson]

Memory, all alone in the moonlight

I can smile at the old days

I was beautiful then

I remember the time I knew what happiness was

Let the memory live again

[Bridge: Jennifer Hudson]

Burnt-out ends of smoky days

The stale, cold smell of morning

The street's lamp dies, another night is over

Another day is dawning

[Verse 3: Jennifer Hudson]

Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise

I must think of a new life

And I mustn't give in

When the dawn comes, tonight will be a memory too

And a new day will begin

[Interlude: Francesca Hayward, Jennifer Hudson & Both]

Sunlight through the trees in summer

Endless masquerading

Like a flower, as the dawn is breaking

The memory is fading

[Verse 4: Jennifer Hudson]

Touch me, it's so easy to leave me

All alone with the memory

Of my days in the sun

If you touch me, you'll understand what happiness is

Look, a new day has begun