Shelf life (Mementoes of you)
By David Hawes
Title - Shelf life (Mementoes of you)
(Slow musical intro)
(Verse 1)
Placed on the shelves, mementoes of you
Trying to keep this house a home
So hard living here without you
Just this shelf life, me, left here alone
(Verse 2)
Yes, there's photographs aplenty
But the fixed smiles, they're all that remain
Alongside artefacts of our journeys
Sweet permission for all my pain
(Bridge)
(Chorus)
'Cause for now it's a sad life,a sad life
Just with these mementoes on the shelves
I want us back together
Back together, us, ourselves
Yeah, for now it's a sad life, a sad life
Just with these mementoes on the shelves
But I know we can't be back together
Back together, us, ourselves
(Musical interlude)
(Verse 3)
I duteously keep going
Keeping the dust at bay
But still hoping that you'll soon walk in the door
I can only...(Pause)...I can only but pray
(Verse 4)
And I'm told as time goes on
Thing's will get a little easier to bear
But for now I just want you, I just want you
I just want you, with me, here
(Chorus)
'Cause for now it's a sad life, a sad life
Just with these mementoes on the shelves
I want us back together
Back together, us, ourselves
Yeah, for now it's a sad life, a sad life
Just with these mementoes on the shelves
But I know we can't be back together
Back together, us, ourselves
(Verse 5)
So, where-ever you are baby
I'll be keeping you, keeping you in my heart
And with these mementoes on the shelves
I will never, I will never ever part
(Shortened chorus)
'Cause for now it's a sad life, a sad life
Just with these mementoes on the shelves
And I want us back together
But I know we can't be back together
Back together, us, ourselves
(Fading chorus until the end)
Yeah baby, for now it's a sad life, a sad life
Just with these mementoes of us on the shelves
I so want us back together
Yeah, so much more than this shelf life, with just these mementoes on the shelves
I just want us
I just want us
I just want us back together, you and I, us
Ourselves
Copyright (c) David Hawes 2017
