Useless Memories

Useless Memories

Holding onto broken dishes, birthday candles and their wishes
gathering dust on the window sill
Flowers dying on the front porch
faded as the dress you once wore
hanging in the closet still

You hear the back door swinging, same old record singing
feels like time is slowing down
And all these useless memories feel so warm and friendly
when they keep on coming 'round

Does your key unlock the door?
Like it did all those years when your foot steps kissed this floor
Do your fingers know the chords to every song you wrote here?
is that what you come back for?
Or did you just forget you don't live here anymore

When you close your eyes it's all true
all those little names he called you
how he held you when you cried
and now you've found some happiness
but you treat it like a guest
waiting on fate to change its mind

Like a trail of breadcrumbs leading back to where you come from
yesterday will have its charms
but when evening's falling
a lonely shadow's calling
to take you from your baby's arms