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Why Do I Still Remember You

from Voices From The Right Brain by Rob Siegel

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The true story is told in the intro. This was the first time I'd ever played the song out. Captured at the Passim open mike.

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so I’m a little spacey
I forget stuff all the time
I’ve parked my car in places
I nearly could not find
I forget my anniversary
my mother’s birthday too
why do I still remember you

I forget to put the seat up
I forget to fold the clothes
to wear my hat in winter
bundle up against the cold
I forget to slow for children
‘till they’re almost in full view
why do I still remember you

there was no agonizing moment
where I should’ve but I hedged
there was no picnic on the hilltop
just me out on the edge

I’ve forgotten Deuteronomy
and capitals of states
I’ve forgotten trigonometry
and calculus and Yeats
I forget who ran with Clinton
In 1992
why do I still remember you

I’ve forgotten grateful dead songs
I used to know by heart
I forget the national anthem
at that line about ramparts
I sometimes call the kids
by the wrong name which one are you
why do I still remember you

when there’s nothing to regret here
cause it wasn’t even close
just a dream
of a memory
of a phantom
of a ghost

aging’s analgesic
the sated vacant Zen
I forget people instantly
what was your name again
what were your moments made of
that the neurons turned to glue
why do I still remember you

why did I laminate a memory
of a thing that did not be
neither drink nor time and distance
can expunge your thing from me

you’re my dirty little secret
you’re the thing I can’t forget
you’re the rare unopened bottle
you’re the unsmoked cigarette
you’re the click that’s quietly ticking
and you haven’t got a clue
that I still remember you

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from Voices From The Right Brain, released December 15, 2004

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Rob Siegel Boston, Massachusetts

Rob Siegel is well-known in Boston folk music circles as an innovative songwriter who draws from his idyllic yet stressed- out middle-class suburban existence and produces memorable, intelligent, well-crafted songs.

His first new CD in 14 years, "A Landscape of Ghosts," will be out in April, with a CD release show at Club Passim on Monday April 30th. ... more

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