In "Mother Of A Memory," Dylan Marlowe confronts a vivid recollection of a past love that still feels dangerously alive. A perfect beach moment with a drink, a cross necklace, and sunlit hair pulls him back into a relationship he has already tried to leave behind. The memory becomes a weapon, a loaded gun aimed at his chest, and he knows he must destroy it before it destroys him. He wishes the memory had been taken away when the love left, but instead he is forced to relive the pain of forgetting again and again.
Mother Of A Memory Lyrics by Dylan Marlowe
Damn, you look perfect there in the sand
You’re about to tell me to take a sip of that drink in your hand
Then you’ll say “I love you” as the waves crash in
And I’ll think to myself, “It don’t get no better than this.”
I see that cross on your neck
I see that sun in your hair
I know how bad it’ll get
If it don’t stop there
That’s a mother of a memory
That’s a son of a gun pointed right to my chest
Gotta kill it ‘fore it kills me
‘Cause that’s a mother of a memory
To forget again
To forget again
Before I know it I’m in too deep
And I let myself go back to you kissin’ me
Wish I could just turn it off
Wish I could just shut it down
Wish I could go back in time
And unmake it somehow
‘Cause that’s a mother of a memory
That’s a son of a gun pointed right to my chest
Gotta kill it ‘fore it kills me
‘Cause that’s a mother of a memory
To forget again
To forget again
I done forgot you once
Why can’t I catch a break
Sometimes I wish you took it with you when you walked away
Took it with you when you walked away
‘Cause that’s a mother of a memory
That’s a son of a gun pointed right to my chest
Gotta kill it ‘fore it kills me
‘Cause that’s a mother of a memory
To forget again
To forget again
To forget again
