So here I am with my thoughts of you
And this world I've left for me
Stoic faces when I think of you
And how I once believed
So now you call me, but you know I won't let you through
I've myself to deceive

[Chorus]
So leave the memories alone
I don't want to see
The way it is, as to how it used to be
Leave the memories alone, don't change a thing
And I'll hold you here in my memory

So I find me in your garden now
A sad smile for the scene
And all the flowers that we planted now
Taken by the weeds
But in my minds eye, you know they still bloom for me
They stand tall there, in that summer breeze

[Chorus]

In my memory, yeah

[Chorus]

You'll never change
You'll never change
You'll never change
You will never change


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Leave the Memories Alone Lyrics as written by Carl William Bell

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    First off let me just say that I can't believe this song doesn't have more comments. It is a great song, and possibly one of my favorite songs.

    Now on to its meaning. I believe that jrock is right, it is about a person who is trying to prevent from talking to an ex that he/she once loved and had their heart broken. It is a way of saying, "Please leave me be, because I want to know you for who you were and not what you have become and what has been done to me."

    mvp828on February 29, 2008   Link

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