Memories Fade Like Photographs

How long has it been since honesty
Has been the best policy between you and me?
That moment was so long ago,
And now I can hardly remember your face.
All the dreams I have had, and the lies I've told
Are there in front of me.
So many conversations
Have happened between us two.
But how would you know?
You wouldn't
Because you haven't heard any of them.

Well memories fade and photographs
Are lost and grimy with age.
I can't even see your face anymore.
Isn't that a shame?

I don't even know the last thing you said
To me before I was gone.
All I remember are some of the times we've had,
There was a song, a video
That always made you smile and blush.
There was even that one artist who
I still can't believe that you knew.
A chuckle here, a game or two there,
Is all that I still have
From years ago when you and I
Were still inseparable.

Memories fade and the photographs
Are yellowed and dirty with age.
I can't even hear your laugh anymore.
Isn't that a shame?

Was it you or the idea of you
That I have loved since then?
You are long gone, while I am still here
Waiting for a ghost.
A ghost that will be tall and smiling
But probably not at me.
Maybe I am the ghost, because I am the one
That you can't even see.

And the memories fade, the photographs
Have been ripped apart and burned.
I don't even want to remember your name.
Well, isn't that a shame?