All That I've Loved (For Barbara)

They didn't ask him to leave when the bell rung

Drinking whiskey much older than I am

I sat and I watched him watching his watch

And he turned round and asked me the time

The waitress wandered across from the kitchen

She was ever so slightly singing

A song he once knew, such a beautiful tune

And he wished that he knew it once more

He asked me

"Where do you go when your mind doesn't work with your soul?

I had memories made, now I can't put a face to a name."

"Do you know who I am?

Where did I go? And where have I been?

Do you know who I am?

All that I've loved and all that I've seen seems to go"

There she sat with her tea in the garden

Didn't remember why we were arguing

The point had been lost, she forgot where it was

So she told me the story again

She had told me to look in the kitchen

She said some of her things had gone missing

They all had been stored where she kept them before

It was only her mind that had changed

She asked me

"Where do you go when your mind doesn't work with your soul?

I had memories made, now I can't put a face to a name."

"Do you know who I am?

Where did I go? And where have I been?

Do you know who I am?

All that I've loved and all that I've seen seems to go"

Every breeze running through every tree

And every fallen leaf, that's you my friend

I know the world will change

But you will know my name, when I see you again

Do you know who I am?

Where did I go? And where have I been?

Do you know who I am?

All that I've loved and all that I've seen seems to go