[Verse 1]

We were children when I met you

There between the autumn trees

You consumed me and I let you

Burn me in the fallen leaves

A thousand winters each more serious

Separated earth and sky

The blood was angry, blood was furious

But the heart cannot recall just why

[Verse 2]

The quill won't recognize the paper

The piano doesn't know its keys

The stars are old and can't remember

What it's like to map the seas

And when I look at you I tremble

But damned if I know who you are

A ghostly haze of sweet November

Lost and senile as the stars

[Chorus]

And here in this forgetting room

The rising sun's a setting moon

And all the world fits in our hands

And this forgetting room

Goes to sleep; we're entombed

By no high command

There's nothing more to understand

[Verse 3]

But in all the happenstance of nature

The cruelty without a name

A random number generator

Is still a function all the same

So even if the sky is broken

Idiotic, blind with age

I will hold you and keep hoping

There's a script to guide the stage

And it goes on and on

[Chorus]

Here in this forgetting room

The rising sun's a setting moon

And all the world fits in our hands

And this forgetting room

Goes to sleep; we're entombed

By no high command

There's nothing more to understand

[Verse 4]

And if that's how it has to happen

If that's the way it's gotta be

Then I submit against all reason

A small request for you and me

[Bridge]

Make the universe forget us

In some old dusty catacomb

Nameless, numberless, and breathless

Let our closeness be our home

[Verse 5]

First we'd forget why there was fire

Then forget why there was love

And I forget what's next cause I

Forget what I was thinking of—right!

We were children when I met you

Carried in the careless breeze

Now if you leave me, I would let you

But what's the use of memories?

When now is all your eyes can see

When I forget the melody