You're Gonna Need This Memory

Green leaves shiver on that tree
Seasons turn like traffic lights
Like some fine flashing thing
Just outside wisperin'
Hold on boy you’re gonna need this memory
I’ve seen baby hands reach out
Grab my fingers like a vise
Grab my glasses
Grab my keys
Grab my heart by the strings
Hold on boy, you’re gonna need this memory
If all I got for all my trouble
Is just a box of souveniers
Still it’s worth a lot just to remember
Just to know that I was here
Lovers smile from photographs
Of endless summers by the sea
Still hear old friends joke and laugh
From the past they call to me Saying hold on boy, you’re gonna need this memory
If all we got for all our trouble
Is just this box of souveniers
Still it’s worth a lot just to remember
Just so we know that we were here
Footprints walkin' in the sand
The tide will come and wash them clean
Sometimes when you squeeze my hand
I think I know just what you mean
Saying hold on boy, you’re gonna need this memory
Saying hold on boy, you’re gonna need this memory