You're Gonna Need This Memory

Green leaves shiver on that tree
 Seasons turn like traffic lights
 Like some fine flashing thing just outside whisperin'
 Hold on, boy, you're gonna need this memory
 I've seen baby hands reach out
 Grab my fingers like a vise, grab my glasses
 Grab my keys, grab my heart by the strings
 Hold on, boy, you're gonna need this memory
 If all I got for all my trouble
 Is just a box of souvenirs
 Still it's worth a lot just to remember
 Just to know that I was here
 Lovers smile from photographs of endless summers by the sea
 Still hear old friends joke and laugh
 From the past they call to me
 Saying, "Hold on boy, you're gonna need this memory"
 If all we got for all our trouble
 Is just this box of souvenirs
 Still it's worth a lot just to remember
 Just so we know that we were here
 Footprints walkin' in the sand
 The tide will come and wash them clean
 Sometimes when you squeeze my hand
 I think I know just what you mean
 Saying, "Hold on boy, you're gonna need this memory"
 Saying, "Hold on boy, you're gonna need this memory"