The things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream
And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget That history puts a saint in every dream Well, she said she'd stick around until the bandages came off But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit And Mathilda asks the sailors "are those dreams or are those prayers?" So close your eyes, son, and this won't hurt a bit