Forget to Remember
Super Collider
2013
Duration: 4:33
Track number: 9
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
A harrowing song about the painful experience of watching a loved one suffer from severe memory loss, likely Alzheimer's or dementia (**'You forget to remember'**). The lyrics describe the emotional trauma of the patient becoming a stranger and the feeling of a **'long goodbye'**. The final verse introduces the conspiracy theory element, blaming the memory loss on **'mercury'** and **'the vaccine'**.
Lyrics
**Sands in the hourglass fall for us all**
You don't answer me anymore when I call
So much is **trapped inside, tangled in your brain**
It's getting cold outside and it looks like rain
The **sky is falling** and my **heart is caving in**
So, now the time has come to say the **long goodbye**
The **setting of the sun reflection in your eyes**
Day after day after day the **world will pass you by**,
you **forget to remember**
Solo - Dave
If this is living, what the hell is **living for**?
You've **boarded up your eyes**, your **mind has locked the door**
I'm just a **stranger now with an unfamiliar face**
You can't recall me at all,
there's **not a trace**... not a trace... not a trace
I don't know where you are and my **world is crumbling in**
So, now the time has come to say the **long goodbye**
The **setting of the sun reflection in your eyes**
Day after day after day the **world will pass you by**,
you **forget to remember**
Solo - Chris
I just want to talk - What do you want?
But you've nothing to say - Leave me alone
I beg you to come - Get away from me
And you just walk away - I have **no idea who you are!**
I curse the day that your **smile fades away**, till then I pray
A **burning candle in-between and at both ends**
With all that we've learned, yet we still pretend
I just wish you could **say my name again**
They **made the lock and broke the key**,
the culprit was the **mercury**
The **vaccine wipes your memories**,
till you **forget even how to breathe**
A **tangled web they weave**, when they **practice to deceive**
So, now the time has come to say the **long goodbye**
The **setting of the sun reflection in your eyes**
Day after day after day the **world will pass you by**
I said that I'd be strong, but you know I had to lie
You **forget to remember**... it's time to say the **long goodbye**
