Remember for Us Both

[Intro — low piano, distant guitar]
Dementia is the sound of a closing door,
A key turned slowly in a lock we knew before.
It is a river breaking through its banks,
Erasing all the names, the faces, and the tracks.
It pours yesterday into today,
Then carries tomorrow away.
But somewhere beyond the reach of time,
Your soul still finds its way to mine.

[Verse 1]
You come to me in dreams when the house is still,
With a broken voice and an unbroken will.
You whisper through the dark, “Don’t let me go—
Remember what I can no longer know.”
Your footsteps fade beneath the floor,
Your touch is a shadow against the door.
But my hands still know what my eyes can’t see,
And your vanished world still lives in me.

[Pre-Chorus]
If the river takes your yesterday,
If it turns your words to foam,
I will be the light beside the shore,
I will lead your lost heart home.

[Chorus]
Remember for us both when I can’t remember,
Love for us both through the coldest weather.
Be my fire when the night runs deep,
Be the promise my silence keeps.
I am still with you when the names are gone,
Still your love when the lights turn low.
If I become a star beyond your sky,
Hold my light and don’t let it die.
Remember for us both, can you hear me call?
Don’t give up when the shadows fall.
Come to me in dreams, then set me free—
But carry my light wherever you may be.

[Verse 2]
You forgot our house, the children, the years,
The little victories, the old souvenirs.
Sometimes you searched in a stranger’s face
For the man who once knew his rightful place.
Fear grew wild in your tired eyes,
A black-winged storm beneath empty skies.
You reached for me like a child in rain,
While the world came loose inside your mind.
It wasn’t you who walked away;
It was life that stole the way.
It tore down the bridges, it darkened the view,
But nothing could take what was real between us two.

[Pre-Chorus 2]
When memory fails and the daylight bends,
Love remains where the story ends.
No map, no clock, no spoken name
Can put out an undying flame.

[Chorus]
Remember for us both when I can’t remember,
Love for us both through the coldest weather.
Be my fire when the night runs deep,
Be the promise my silence keeps.
I am still with you when the names are gone,
Still your love when the lights turn low.
If I become a star beyond your sky,
Hold my light and don’t let it die.
Remember for us both, can you hear me call?
Don’t give up when the shadows fall.
Come to me in dreams, then set me free—
But carry my light wherever you may be.

[Bridge — restrained, then rising]
My words come folded, frayed, and faint,
They lose their shape before they reach your ear.
There is sea-foam trembling in my eyes,
And an ocean with no shore inside.
You look straight through me, past my face,
As if I were a stranger in a stranger’s place.
Yet your fingers close around my hand,
The last small anchor in a sinking land.
And in the night you come back to say,
“Live where the river carried me away.
Remember where I cannot remain.
Let love outlast the loss and pain.”

[Rock Break]
Let the names fall.
Let the old clocks rust.
Let the photographs fade into dust.
What the mind releases,
The heart can keep.
What the night has buried
Still moves in the deep.

[Verse 3]
I followed the shadow of who you had been,
Through every locked room, through the dark.
I tried to lift you out of the hollow,
But some rivers refuse to be followed.
Your body still breathes in a room full of years,
While your soul travels somewhere beyond fear.
Between memory’s edge and eternity,
You remain a light moving quietly through me.
This story wounds me, but I will not run.
The ending is not where the love is undone.
I’ll stand on the shore where the dark waters bend,
Keeping your light until my own end.

[Final Chorus — full band]
Remember for us both when I can’t remember,
Love for us both through the longest winter.
Be my fire when the world turns black,
Be the voice that calls my spirit back.
I am still with you though you don’t know my name,
Still your love beneath the ash and flame.
If you are a star that has faded from sight,
I will hold your last remaining light.
Remember for us both, through sorrow and time,
You are my love, my truth, my lifeline.
And if the river carries you beyond,
I’ll keep you alive in the shape of this song.
Remember for us both, can you hear me call?
I won’t let your memory vanish at all.
You may lose the world, but you won’t lose me—
I will be your shore, your home, your sea.

[Outro — piano and fading guitar]
You are far away, but you’re still within me,
Like a star whose light crosses a limitless sea.
The years may unravel, the night may descend,
But love remembers where memory ends.
And all of the life that remains in me
Is carrying your light through the dark silently.
Not perfect, not whole, not untouched by the loss—
Just faithful enough to remember us both.