I Meant to Remember

[Steve Durand]

I Meant to Remember
By Steve Durand

Verse I

You're asking me if I recall
What you were wearing when we met
It seems to me I have a way
Of saying things that I'll regret

So as I answer keep in mind
I never meant to cause you pain
But I don't have a knack for storing
useless data in my brain

Chorus

I meant to remember
I meant to remember
I meant to remember
I meant to remember
But I forget

Verse II

You're asking me if I recall
Where we were when we first kissed
I must confess the question really
Makes me want to take the fifth

I do not know the time or place
I'm feeling like I'm flying blind
I've kissed so many girls before
It gets all jumbled in my mind

Chorus

Bridge

I'm no expert in psychology
And some say unpleasant memories are supressed
But I think we retain just what we want
And disregard the rest

Verse III

You're asking me if I recall
The promise that I made to you
That you would be my only love
And to you always I'd be true

But now you know that what I say
Does not remain inside my head
Since you came by my place and found
Another woman in my bed

Chorus

[EightLeggedOedipus]

I Meant To Remember
Performed by Hope, Oath, and Suspicion
Written by Noah McLaughlin

Gave you all of my skin
Gave you all of my dimes
Gave you all of my love
You took me for a ride
Gave you all of my skin
Gave you all of my dimes

I meant to remember
I meant to remember you
I meant to remember
Not to play the fool

Gave you all of my flesh
Gave you my everything
Gave you every rose that I had
In my garden
Gave you all of my flesh
Gave you my everything

Chorus

In this fleeting time

Chorus

[deshead]

I Meant To Remember - deshead

It's a long day gone, there's something in the wind.
I swear I saw you come back again.
3 years on the pattern stays the same:
you keep waking me up.

You were wide-eyed girl, lovely as the day.
There's nothing but a summer night smells this way.
I hear your song out among the trees,
you still callin' to me...

• Did it mean a lot,
  the way you looked when I promised half the world?
  I didn't mean it all,
  but I meant to remember you smiling, girl.

And where there's smoke, there's fire,
but I could never tell
you'd had enough when you stopped and fell.
So all we are is everything we do.
You found the worst in me too.

• Did it mean a lot,
  the way you looked when I promised half the world?
  I didn't mean it all,
  but I meant to remember you smiling, girl.

There's a soul at peace,
out above the lake.
Under the moonlight I'm sure she's safe.
But there's no word for all the pain I feel.

• Did it mean a lot,
  the way you looked when I promised half the world?
  I didn't mean it all,
  but I meant to remember you smiling, girl.

[Kamakura]

I meant to remember- Kamakura

I meant to remember the way we were,
the laughs we had when we first met.
I meant to remember the plans we had
for the life we would surely lead.

But it's too painful to know you were the one I loved,
to see you change from day to day depending on your stars.
It's too painful to watch you change from who you were
to the couch potato you've become, before my love blind eyes.

I meant to remember to pay for your nose,
to buy you new clothes, I bought you a rose.
I meant to remember to be less like me
but I can't, I'm who I am.

But it's too painful for me to see the way you are
the TV ads, the movie stars that rule your life.
It's too painful to know you were the one I loved,
to see you sucked into the maw of reality shows.

I meant to remember, but I'll try to forget,
forget a lot of things.

[Spud]

<b>I Meant To Remember</b> - IRC All Stars

What was left behind?
When buildings crumbled down
Trees on the ground
And ruble on the side

Pool of purple hue
A pile of bones and you

Rats eat the plums and
Suzies eat the rats
Plums eat the Suzies
Circle of life

Time walks a goosestep
Wind blowing through its feathered hair
Trees bend sympathetically
A sedentary dance step

You pulled it down
What was it you found?

Rats eat the plums and
Suzies eat the rats
Plums eat the Suzies
Circle of life

The problems plain to see
Too much technology

Rats eat the plums and
Suzies eat the rats
Plums eat the Suzies
Circle of life