Remind Me

Rate this song

Click a number to rate

About this song

From Tales from the Decryption. A husband who never forgets anything anymore, until their thirtieth anniversary, when she asks what flowers she carried down the aisle and watches him reach for his phone.

Lyrics

[Intro]
[Fingerpicked acoustic guitar]

[Verse 1]
I used to be the guy who'd miss my mama's birthday,
Lose the keys and leave the coffee pot on low,
Now I've got a little voice that never misses anything—
I just say "remind me," and it lets me know.

[Chorus]
Remind me, remind me,
Every name and every date,
Every birthday, every bill—
I am never running late.
It's all up in the cloud
Where it's safe as it can be.
I don't have to keep a thing—
It keeps it all for me.

[Verse 2]
Sunday at the table, she said, "Remember our apartment,
Up above the laundromat, the summer we were wed?"
I smiled and said, "Of course I do," and checked it on my phone—
Third floor on Elm Street. That's what the record said.

Then my daughter asked at Christmas for my favorite memory of her;
I said, "Hang on, sweetheart," and I searched the photo stream,
Found her at the beach when she was six, and said, "This one, I think,"
And she smiled, but she could tell it wasn't picked by me.

[Chorus]
Remind me, remind me,
Every name and every date,
Every birthday, every bill—
I am never running late.
It's all up in the cloud
Where it's safe as it can be.
I don't have to keep a thing—
It keeps it all for me.

[Verse 3 - Softer]
Thirty years tonight, the candles and the good wine,
She reached across the table and she took me by the hand,
Said, "What flowers did I carry when I walked down the aisle to you?"
And I reached for my phone...

[Break]

[Spoken]
...and she watched me do it.

[Bridge]
It's all in there somewhere,
Every picture, every place,
Every word I ever promised,
Every line of her face—
Everything recorded,
Not a bit of it by heart.
Remembering was never about keeping—
Remembering was the loving part.

[Final Chorus - Slow]
Remind me, remind me—
Not the date, not the place—
Tell me what you carried, darlin',
Let me look you in the face.
I won't put it in the cloud
Where it's safe as it can be;
I'll keep it where I used to keep you,
Here inside of me.

[Outro - Spoken, gentle]
She said, "Daisies. "
[pause]
"White daisies."
I said it back to her, slow.
And I didn't write it down.

[End]

Comments (0)