FAWM: "Remember"

Remember

2025 by @dr_griff

Liner Notes

For the Finish It (Finished) challenge. The chord progression and melody have been hanging out in my voice memos for a month and a half. Tonight I decided to put some lyrics to them, with the help of @matthewsanford prompting me. This is the result. I get the sense that the viewpoint characters/singer are looking at the dying elders of their culture and trying to find ways to keep their memory (if not their memories) alive.

Lyrics

No Capo

Verse 1 D Way back when G When the world was young and new D Way back when A Asus2 When there was so much to do

Look at now Everyone is old and gray Look at now Everyone just seems to say

Bridge 1 F G D Dsus4 Remember us when we used to be happy? F G D Dsus4 Remember us when we used to be fun? F G D Dsus4 Remember us, remember how we used to be F G
Remember us or remember none

Verse 2 Say their names And remember them anew Say their names And remember them and true

Know their tale Who they were and who they’ll be Know their tale What they meant to you and me

Bridge 2 Remember when they used to be so happy? Remember when they used to be so kind? Remember them, remember how they used to be Remember them, remember all the time

Verse 3 Always see What they wanted us to know Always see How they wanted us to grow

Hold their love So strong for you and me Hold their love And be what we have to be

Bridge 3 Remember why they used to be so happy Remember why they used to be so strong Remember them, remember how they used to be Remember we will be like them ere long

Outtro Remember Remember And you will see

Comments

@dudachris 2025

I really like this. You sing it like nostalgia which is really effective and it just works so well. Great write 👏 👏 👏

@joe_addams 2025

I like this and it could still be a protest song, because we’ve got to remember the good times in the past.

@matthewsanford 2025

Love it brother! You give me a bit of credit, sure, I was glad to help you off that block by just saying this crazy thing or that, but what you did here I really take no credit for!...well, apart from "way back when" but I was going in a completely different direction with it that completely sucked compared to what you accomplished with it here! Great song, always good to consider the past, and not always with rose colored glasses!