Memory from Roots & Horizons by Michaela Bekenn

LYRICS:

Today I'm young
So I don't check twice in the mirror
I don't doubt my own photograph, no
Cause I'm young
So why look both ways before crossing
I know, every way is my right of way, yeah
And my memories are of yesterday, ah

On my seventh birthday
I said "I'm gonna build sand castles
I'm gonna be the next olympic star
on the monkey bars"

Ladiddyda diddyda diddyda diddy la la la
Memory is my runaway
Memory is my runaway
Memory, my runaway train

Then one day
There's a wrinkle, scar, photograph
I can't recognize, no
And I dream of being wide awake
I dream of bones that don't ache
And I dream of being younger

Memory is a place unseen like a dream
And memory got you lost again
Memory lifts you out of the dark
Into the light
Memory, it fades away
Fades away

I sit with my Grandmother
Basking in her ocean eyes
Asking her to recognize her beauty
And she says "Looking back on my life
There's a lot I would do differently
But looking back on my life
I wouldn't trade it for the world"

She says
"Let's go dancing, let's go out
Let's go dancing
And we can turn the lights off at the end
Let's go dancing
Please, take me out
I might be eighty-seven
But I ain't in heaven...yet"

Ladiddyda diddyda diddyda diddy la la la
Memory is my runaway
Memory is my runaway
Memory is my runaway train x2

We may lose our memory
But we'll never lose this moment
Hold to your memory
Before it runs away

• Folk
• Meditation music
• children's music
• folk rock
• singer-songwriter
• Toronto