Sea Of Memory

• Artist: Premiata Forneria Marconi
• Title: Sea of Memories
• Album: Live In Japan 2002
• Track: 1
• Length: 6:47 minutes (7.79 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Premiata Forneria Marconi Live In Japan 2002 was released in both a 2 CD and DVD edition. The 2 CD edition contains 2 new studio tracks including a collaboration with Peter Hammill who wrote English lyrics and sings Sea of Memory.

The Sea of Memory
If only we remembered
as much as we forget....
The past’s a distant ocean
we can’t go back to yet.
We wait down in the valley
and till the soil by hand
feeling the weight of water
built up behind the dam.

Left and right, up and down, head over heels
that’s the only way that we know
down and up, right and left, over and over
tumbling on with the flow

through time our ghosts are swimming
like schools of angel fish
we have no way of feeling
the flow of water under the bridge

we’re working in the fields
we’re making tracks
all of our histories stacked behind our backs
high up above us now
the dam wall cracks
here comes everything we’ve been
in the flood of memory

If only we remembered
as much as we forget
if only we could see that
what we give is what we get
here comes the flooding water
to wash us to the sea
of memory.

On and on
the river flows
on and on
it goes
one by one
we’ll all find our own way homeward

we wait down in the valley
and till the soil by hand
we feel the weight of water
that’s (been) building up behind the dam

and
up and down,left and right, head over heels
we go
down and up, right and left, slippery eels

If only we remembered
as much as we forget
if only we could see that
what we give is what we get
here comes the flooding water
to wash us to the sea
(of) memory.