Dessa - Momento Mori lyrics

Here we are rounding the edge again
And I wonder if you recall what you said
When I asked to hear your
Largest as yet unanswered question
And you said, "Why bother at all?"

I just arrived by the train from Bombay
Never heard anyone say it so plain
The prettiest girl in the room
Stood, collected her things
Fastened her coat up around her fine throat
And though you didn’t notice there
For just one moment well
I was the prettiest woman with you
Half a world away trying hard to stay
Aware of why I came you forgot the comment
Forgot the moment went on your way
There’s got to be a better way
To waste a day

Your mother, you told me
Had been a great beauty
And suffered profoundly
The loss of her looks you gave a practiced
Exhausted expression recited a line from
A quotations book
My father in his youth set off
With a kite and a liter of wine
Mad to determine the height of the sky
And the breadth of one human life
No ribbons, no starting guns
Sprinting around the sun
Man’s quaint little race
The heaving contenders get one thing to say
And it’s always the same: Our names
Chiming through space

We stayed up late until it became early
And camped in the cold
On the hood of your car
The neighbors, the papers the radio, TV
Said this evening we could see
Thousands of fast-falling stars
And that sort of thing happens
Just once in lifetimes like ours
I’m hopeless nearsighted
Not much for stargazing
But couldn’t let all of those meteors pass
This was our first this was our only
This was our very last chance