The musical CATS is coming to town next week:
Memory
Daylight, see the dew on the sunflower
And a rose that is fading
Roses wither away
Like the sunflower I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day
Now Old Deuteronomy, just before dawn
Through a silence you feel you could cut with a knife
Announces the cat who can now be reborn
And come back to a different jellicle life
Memory, turn your face to the moonlight
Let your memory lead you
Open up, enter in
If you find there the meaning of what happiness is
Then a new life will begin
Memory, all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again
Burnt out ends of smokey days
The stale cold smell of morning
The streetlamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning
Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin
Sunlight, through the trees in the summer
Endless masquerading
Like a flower as the dawn is breaking
The memory is fading
Touch me, it's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me you'll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day has begun
Did they change or rearrange the lyrics?
Midnight not a sound from the payment
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the Lamplight the withered leaves
Collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan.
Memory all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then,---
I remember the time I knew what happiness was.
Let the memory live again.
Every street lamp seems to beat a fatalistic warning.
Someone mutters and a street lamp gutters
and soon it will be morning .
Daylight I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn’t give in.
When the dawn comes tonight
will be a memory too
And a new day will begin
Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The street light dies another night is over
Another day is dawning.
Touch me its so easy to leave me
All alone with memory of my days in the sun
If you touch me you’ll understand what happiness is
Look a new day has begun