So I guess it goes to show the ineffectiveness of hope,   When all that's left of you is a song or two you'll never hear at all.   And I guess that's just as well;   I'd hate to justify myself.   Those words came from a part of me that's dead and gone by now.      If I could ask for just one thing,   Would you still do this for me?   If I could have one last request,   Would you just promise me this?   Please smile when you remember me.      The photographs of you and me are probably few and far between,   So I know that it's a lot to ask to keep me in your memory.   But as the days are passing by, and I am just another guy   That you may have once felt something for but now it's hard to say for sure,      If I could ask for just one thing,   Would you still do this for me?   If I could have one last request,   Would you just promise me this?   Please smile when you remember me.