I recall at the end of it all    You were on your knees and I was standing tall    But is my memory deceiving me?    Was I hanging there while you prayed for me?    Remember how when the show was done,    We were dancing and singing and having some fun,    Then I heard you speak, your voice was bleak---    "What we forget we must repeat."       R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R, R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R       I remember the tricks of the trade,    Who got left behind and who made the grade,    And I don't need the pages of some master plan    To tell me what to do or tell me who I am    But when all is said and all is done,    Under the yellow glow of a setting sun,    It really doesn't matter what you have done,    You are blind and deaf and dumb       R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R, R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R       I remember an endless space    And the tolling bells of some holy place    Is it a dream that comes back to me    Or a memory that I can barely see?    Not the voices that haunt my mind    Of the friends and lovers I have left behind.       What I see, what comes back to me,    Is a place I cannot find.       R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R, R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R