What Shall We Remember?

"What Shall We Remember?" is a song by Ricky Ian Gordon setting his own text. The song is part of Ricky Ian Gordon's songbook A Horse With Wings.

Date: 1995Composer: Ricky Ian GordonText: Ricky Ian GordonSong Collection: A Horse With Wings

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What Shall We Remember?
by Ricky Ian Gordon

Dear Friend,
Leaving so soon?
Cast a lasting shadow
on the paling moon.
What shall we remember
of that afternoon?
What shall we remember?
Cool sand.
Dazzling light.
You beside the ocean
with your eyes so bright.
What shall we remember
of that precious night?
What shall we remember?
Slow dance!
Music and bliss!
Loving arms,
and one
uninterrupted kiss!
Oh if it were only that…
instead of this.
What shall we remember
of the ones we miss?
Dear Friend,
pain in my heart.
I won’t be afraid
if we are meant to part.
Some things have to end
before they ever start.
What shall we remember…
what shall we remember?

Sheet Music

A Horse With Wings

Composer(s): Ricky Ian Gordon

Song(s): Once I Was
Sweet Song
Afternoon on a Hill
My Sister's New Red Hat
A Horse with Wings
Air
Poem (Lana Turner has Collapsed)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Spring and the Fall
Souvenir
Coyotes
The Red Dress
What Shall We Remember?
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Sycamore Trees
Fewer Words
The Special Picnic
Janet Underneath the Roses
I am a Cherry Alive
An Old-Fashioned Song
White Haired Woman

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