I recall at the end of it all

You were on your knees and I was standing tall

But is my memory deceiving me?

Was I hanging there while you prayed for me?

Remember how when the show was done

We were dancing and singing and having some fun

Then I heard you speak, your voice was bleak---

"What we forget we must repeat."

R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R, R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R

I remember the tricks of the trade

Who got left behind and who made the grade

And I don't need the pages of some master plan

To tell me what to do or tell me who I am

But when all is said and all is done

Under the yellow glow of a setting sun

It really doesn't matter what you have done

You are blind and deaf and dumb

R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R, R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R

I remember an endless space

And the tolling bells of some holy place

Is it a dream that comes back to me

Or a memory that I can barely see?

Not the voices that haunt my mind

Of the friends and lovers I have left behind

What I see, what comes back to me

Is a place I cannot find

R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R, R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R