Box of Happy Memories

You get a moment in frozen frame

On every page you turn

You keep what most would throw away

You even kiss what some would burn

Then it's all locked safe inside

Your box of happy memories

There's a wreck walking round your town

Using the same name as me

He's a bombed out shell because well

There's nothing where his sanity used to be

Now his heart and mind's been consigned

To your box of happy memories

And there's not much room to breathe

And you know that fine detail

But you shut the lid down tight anyway

And you hope nobody's there

But can't you hear my suffocating cry

From your box of happy memories

Now the summer has opened up the streets

And there's a chance in every bar

A clear night sky almost seems to speak

Get yourself a new start

But I can't get free while I'm

Still in your box of happy memories

There are worse places to be

At least I get to you sometime somehow

There's a sad face that you don't have to see

And words you don't have to hear out loud

Well you know exactly what you find

In your box of happy memories

And there's not much room to breathe

And you know that fine detail

But you shut the lid down tight anyway

And you hope nobody's there

But can't you hear my suffocating cry

From your box of happy memories

You get a moment in frozen frame

On every page you turn

You keep what most would throw away

You even kiss what some would burn

Then it's all locked safe inside

Your box of happy memories