I Remember You Anyway

A memorial song · Songbond

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A song written from a true story

The story & lyrics

The story behind this song

Some weeks the visit is met with a stranger's stare. Other times there's a flicker — a hum of the old song, half the melody still true, the word "kid" the way it always sounded before the years began to slow. The laugh lines are still deep, the dancing eyes still there somewhere behind the clouded sky.

This is the slow kind of goodbye, where love learns to outlast recognition. No name spoken back, no day remembered, and still the holding holds.

For the one who keeps showing up anyway, carrying the both of you the same.

Lyrics

You stare at me like I’m brand new
But I still see the you I knew
The laugh lines deep, your dancing eyes
Now lost behind the cloudy skies

But though your memory fades away
My love for you is here to stay

I remember you anyway
Every smile, every holiday
Every bedtime story, joke you told
Your hands, your hugs, your heart of gold
Though time may steal your yesterdays
I remember you anyway

You hum our song out of the blue
Still get the melody half true
You call me “kid” like long ago
Before the years began to slow

You may not say my name today
But love like yours will never stray

I remember you anyway
In all the things you couldn’t say
In faded eyes, I see the spark
Of every light you left in dark
No matter what your mind betrays
I remember you anyway

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