Memory Cheats

Lyrics

Can you remember the days when life was a cabaret? The water - it was wetter The food - it tasted better And everything was cheaper And people all believe in something rather than nothing And your neighbours were so trusting The music had more tune and Men landed on the moon and The king was doing his thing and making all the ladies swoon and The Beatles sang together We had such lovely weather I wasn't born but it's so easy to remember But my memory is cheating me Its unreliability Makes me believe were the king and queen Of every page in history And now I want my money back But I left it too late and now I see Nostalgia ain't what it used to be Can you remember the time when the future was so fine And rockets crossed the sky And no-one ever died And we had flying cars And we took our holidays on Mars Where the streets were cleaned by intelligent machines I see it all so clearly So colourful it feels so real in my mind So why do I find That the history I can see only existed on TV And now we're living it And it's not a bit How I thought it would be? Because my memory is cheating me Its unreliability Makes me believe we're the king and queen Of every page in history And now I want my money back But I left it too late and now I see Nostalgia ain't what it used to be My memory is cheating me Can you remember the movie Where everything came true The only thing I see is a projected history But even if your life's a story In its finely scripted glory You can take comfort in the fact That you can make your own soundtrack What happens when the movie ends?