I Remember You

Music and lyrics: Sara Indrio

I remember you from the scent of paint, petrol and tar

I remember that scar that came on your hand

From that time that you carved a piece of wood to make me a boat.

I remember those heartbroken days of crying in the basement

And you bringing down peeled oranges and tea

The sound of your slippers and then you quietly saying,

He never deserved me.

Now there’s a hole where you used to be

And it’s carving into memory.

Someone said that when the old generation goes

They winds they shelter from forcefully blow

With original sin and I can hear you calling that standpoint total rubbish.

Yeah, you could be so hardheaded at times

And I used to find that part about you so annoying

But now I know you came as far as a man can in a lifetime.

And there’s a hole …

I remember you from the way you were with the kids

And how they’d love your stories about traveling in Europe

Just after the war and they’d come home all muddy, but happy.

I remember you like a backdrop behind it all

And then the sudden fall and it makes me cry over dinner

And the kids mean well but only make it worse by saying you’ve become a star

There’s a hole …

I remember you from wanting to by buried under a tree

Without a stone so I wouldn’t have to bear the burden

Of a long and tiresome period of mourning over you.

I remember how that’s the one time I didn’t argue

Or try to make you act like some mother figure I didn’t have

And instead I thanked you to your face

For everything.