Shane Koyczan - Remember How We Forgot lyrics
[Shane Koyczan - Remember How We Forgot lyrics]
Remember how we forgot?
Remember how no one ever really died
In the wars we fought?
Because each gunshot came from
Our finger tips
And we never really kept them
Loaded just in case
Cause each enemy was a friend and none
Of it was about oil, religion, or land
It was all just pretend
Remember how we used to bend reality
Like we were circus strong men
Like our imaginations were in shape then
Like we were all ninjas trained in
The deadly art of "did not"
Like "I totally got you" "Did not"
Remember how we forgot?
Remember how our parents told us never
To look directly into the sun
And how we were their son
And so we never looked
Directly into the mirror
In fear that we would go blind
Remember how we used to find any old reason
Just to call someone we were crushing on
Like we could just pawn off
Our sense of embarrassment
Buy a chunk of courage that
Would last just long enough
To have us askin 'em about math and stuff
And how stuff was just stuff
Like I heard you're getting braces
Now braces somehow were and
Still are kinda hot remember how we forgot?
Remember how we all caught mono
And our folks would go
"oh the kissing disease"
And our first steps into gangstahood
Had us saying "mother please, "
Even though we’d never really kissed anyone
Even though we never did half the
Things we said we’d done
We just spun yarn like
Rumpelstiltskin spun gold
We told ghost stories never realizing we
Would one day ourselves become ghosts
Haunting the hallways of schools
Breaking all the rules of
Silence in the library
But we had no chains to rattle
No voice to battle the fact that
We had no vocal chords
We had only finger nails on chalk boards
We would scream, shout
And yell trying to tell
Ourselves what experience
Can teach is What no teacher taught
Remember how we forgot?
Once upon a time, we were young
Our dreams hung like apples
Waiting to be picked and peeled
And hope was something needing
To be reeled-in
So we can fill the always empty big fish
Bin with the one that got away
And proudly say that "this time
Impossible is not an option"
Because success is so akin to effort
And opportunity they could be related
So we took chances
We figure skated on thin ice
Believed that each slice of life was served
With something sweet on the side
And failure was never nearly as important
As the fact that we tried
That in the war against
Frailty and limitation
We supplied the determination it
Takes to make
Ideas and goals the parents of Possibility
And we believe ourselves to be
Members of this family
Not just one branch on one tree
But a forest whose roots make up a dynasty
So when I call you sis or bro
It’s not lightly
And when I ask you to remember
It’s because the future isn't what
It used to be so remember now
Pay tribute to every sacrifice laid
Upon the altar of somehow for all the times
Somehow we overcame somehow we pushed on
Somehow we’ve gone the distance
And in going there we
Possessed the freedom to
Map the uncharted lands of any and Everywhere
We are unbound
Six feet above the underground where we
Will all one day rest so until then
Test the limit's
Test the boundaries and borders
As if the headquarters of potential lay
Just beyond the world's edge
Let the belief that hope belongs to us all
Be the pledge you take to
Make the unachievable as inconceivable
As the false fact hat We were never here
We were here
And our memories are as dear to us as
Every slow motion moment or held breath
So remember every instance before death
Every first kiss, first dance, near
Miss, last chance, yes, no, maybe so
Let us go the distance once more
Let us remember all the moments
That were and were not
Like the point is something we can get and
What we can get is what we got
Because all we have are the times between
The moments we connect each dot
So live and remember
Burn like an ember capable of starting fires
Like each moment inspires the next
Like memories are the context
We put ourselves in
So that life becomes the next of
Kin we need to notify in case of a big bang
Or Extinction level event
Let now be our advent
Let us live like we meant it
Let us burn like we mean it
Because this world doesn't give a
Shit if we end
In a train wreck or a car crash
If our story ends with a dot or dash
If we were dust or ash
Because all we were is all we’ll be
And all we are is the in between of so far
So good
So forget every would, could, or should not
Forget remembering how we forgot
Live like a plot twist exists
Now and in memory because we burn bright
Our light leaves scars on the sun
Let no one say we will
Be undone by time's passing
The memories we are amassing
Will stand as testament
That somehow we bent minds around the concept
That we see others within ourselves
That self-knowledge can't be
Found on bookshelves
So who we are has no bearing on how we appear
Look directly into every mirror
Realize our reflection is the first
Sentence to a story and our story starts:
"We were here"
Remember how no one ever really died
In the wars we fought?
Because each gunshot came from
Our finger tips
And we never really kept them
Loaded just in case
Cause each enemy was a friend and none
Of it was about oil, religion, or land
It was all just pretend
Remember how we used to bend reality
Like we were circus strong men
Like our imaginations were in shape then
Like we were all ninjas trained in
The deadly art of "did not"
Like "I totally got you" "Did not"
Remember how we forgot?
Remember how our parents told us never
To look directly into the sun
And how we were their son
And so we never looked
Directly into the mirror
In fear that we would go blind
Remember how we used to find any old reason
Just to call someone we were crushing on
Like we could just pawn off
Our sense of embarrassment
Buy a chunk of courage that
Would last just long enough
To have us askin 'em about math and stuff
And how stuff was just stuff
Like I heard you're getting braces
Now braces somehow were and
Still are kinda hot remember how we forgot?
Remember how we all caught mono
And our folks would go
"oh the kissing disease"
And our first steps into gangstahood
Had us saying "mother please, "
Even though we’d never really kissed anyone
Even though we never did half the
Things we said we’d done
We just spun yarn like
Rumpelstiltskin spun gold
We told ghost stories never realizing we
Would one day ourselves become ghosts
Haunting the hallways of schools
Breaking all the rules of
Silence in the library
But we had no chains to rattle
No voice to battle the fact that
We had no vocal chords
We had only finger nails on chalk boards
We would scream, shout
And yell trying to tell
Ourselves what experience
Can teach is What no teacher taught
Remember how we forgot?
Once upon a time, we were young
Our dreams hung like apples
Waiting to be picked and peeled
And hope was something needing
To be reeled-in
So we can fill the always empty big fish
Bin with the one that got away
And proudly say that "this time
Impossible is not an option"
Because success is so akin to effort
And opportunity they could be related
So we took chances
We figure skated on thin ice
Believed that each slice of life was served
With something sweet on the side
And failure was never nearly as important
As the fact that we tried
That in the war against
Frailty and limitation
We supplied the determination it
Takes to make
Ideas and goals the parents of Possibility
And we believe ourselves to be
Members of this family
Not just one branch on one tree
But a forest whose roots make up a dynasty
So when I call you sis or bro
It’s not lightly
And when I ask you to remember
It’s because the future isn't what
It used to be so remember now
Pay tribute to every sacrifice laid
Upon the altar of somehow for all the times
Somehow we overcame somehow we pushed on
Somehow we’ve gone the distance
And in going there we
Possessed the freedom to
Map the uncharted lands of any and Everywhere
We are unbound
Six feet above the underground where we
Will all one day rest so until then
Test the limit's
Test the boundaries and borders
As if the headquarters of potential lay
Just beyond the world's edge
Let the belief that hope belongs to us all
Be the pledge you take to
Make the unachievable as inconceivable
As the false fact hat We were never here
We were here
And our memories are as dear to us as
Every slow motion moment or held breath
So remember every instance before death
Every first kiss, first dance, near
Miss, last chance, yes, no, maybe so
Let us go the distance once more
Let us remember all the moments
That were and were not
Like the point is something we can get and
What we can get is what we got
Because all we have are the times between
The moments we connect each dot
So live and remember
Burn like an ember capable of starting fires
Like each moment inspires the next
Like memories are the context
We put ourselves in
So that life becomes the next of
Kin we need to notify in case of a big bang
Or Extinction level event
Let now be our advent
Let us live like we meant it
Let us burn like we mean it
Because this world doesn't give a
Shit if we end
In a train wreck or a car crash
If our story ends with a dot or dash
If we were dust or ash
Because all we were is all we’ll be
And all we are is the in between of so far
So good
So forget every would, could, or should not
Forget remembering how we forgot
Live like a plot twist exists
Now and in memory because we burn bright
Our light leaves scars on the sun
Let no one say we will
Be undone by time's passing
The memories we are amassing
Will stand as testament
That somehow we bent minds around the concept
That we see others within ourselves
That self-knowledge can't be
Found on bookshelves
So who we are has no bearing on how we appear
Look directly into every mirror
Realize our reflection is the first
Sentence to a story and our story starts:
"We were here"