I Remember - The Roots

I drew a two of hearts from a deck of cards

A stock trick from my empty repertoire

Another hopeless story, never read at all

I’m better off looking for the end, where the credits are

It’s a pain living life against the grain

I’m looking back, and y’all look the same

Troy, Mark, and Lil' What’s-His-Name

Memory is rerunning it all

It’s the flight of my fall,

and it’s right on the wall

I remember

Can you remember

How it was?

I do

Remember, do you?

I remember

Can you remember

How it was?

I do

Remember, do you?

I used to ride the train to the same two stops

And look at the graffiti on the rooftops

Like the same song playing on the jukebox

Joint called «Faded Polaroids in a Shoebox»

Regardless to what the cadence is

It can’t be forgotten, like auld acquaintances

I realize how depressing of a place it is

And, when I notice my reflection, whose face it is

I remember

Can you remember

How it was?

I do

Remember, do you?

I remember

Can you remember

How it was?

I do

Remember, do you?

I remember

Can you remember

How it was?

I do

Remember, do you?

I remember

Can you remember

How it was?

I do

Remember, do you?

It’s only human to express the way you really feel

But that same humanity is my Achilles' heel

A leopard can’t change its spots, and never will

So I’m forever ill

, now, I can never chill

What’s keeping me from breaking out, like Benadryl

When my baptism of fire resulted in a kill

Sometimes, it’s as cut-and-dry as a business deal

You gotta cause the blood of a close friend to spill

But you remember still