The Forgetting Room

We were children when I met you
 There between the autumn trees
 You consumed me and I let you
 Burn me in the fallen leaves
 A thousand winters each more serious
 Separated earth and sky
 The blood was angry, blood was furious
 But the heart cannot recall just why
 The quill won't recognize the paper
 The piano doesn't know its keys
 The stars are old and can't remember
 Just what it's like to map the seas
 And when I look at you, I tremble
 But damned if I know who you are
 A ghostly haze of sweet November
 Lost and senile as the stars
 And here in this forgetting room
 The rising sun's a setting moon
 And all the world fits in our hands
 And this forgetting room
 Goes to sleep, we're entombed
 By no high command
 There's nothing more to understand
 But in all the happenstance of nature
 The cruelty without a name
 A random number generator
 Is still a function all the same
 So even if the sky is broken
 Idiotic, blind with age
 I will hold you and keep hoping
 And there's a script to guide the stage
 And it goes on and on
 Here in this forgetting room
 The rising sun's a setting moon
 And all the world fits in our hands
 And this forgetting room
 Goes to sleep, we're entombed
 By no high command
 There's nothing more to understand
 And if that's how it has to happen
 If that's the way it's gotta be
 Then I submit against all reason
 One small request for you and me
 Make the universe forget us
 In some old dusty catacomb
 Nameless, numberless, and breathless
 Let our closeness be our home
 First, we'd forget why there was fire
 Then forget why there was love
 And I forget what's next 'cause I, I
 I forget what I was thinking of-, right!
 We were children when I met you
 Carried in the careless breeze
 Now if you leave me, I would let you
 But what's the use of memories?
 When now is all your eyes can see
 When I forget the melody