We talked for hours about everything
I confided things to you
I’d never
admitted even to me.
But the night must have been dimmer than most
The air between us must have wavered
like it was filled with ghosts
Because I can’t remember your face.
I think you are beautiful
Beyond my powers to describe you
I think you are beautiful
But I can’t remember your face.
The words that you said bred such pictures in my head
They should have been immortalized with Aztec pyramids
I think your ideas all muddled my mind
And that might explain just exactly why
That I can’t remember your face.
I think you are beautiful
Beyond my powers to describe you
I think you are beautiful
But I can’t say I have no doubts about it.
I think I remember fireworks in the sky
That may or may not have matched the color of your eyes
But the lenses in mine or the martinis we imbibed
All must have been a bit too dry
Because I can’t remember you’re face.
Maybe it’s because we did it doggy-style
Or because the mirrors above my bed have been broken for a while
Maybe it’s because you wore a Zorro mask
Since you played the hero and I the damsel in distress
’Cause I can’t remember your face.
I think you are beautiful
Beyond my powers to describe you
I think you are beautiful
But I was really too drunk to tell.
ALTERNATE VERSE
It makes me think
I might have been just a fantasy
Except for the name and the number on the back of a crumpled receipt
I guess that means I have your fingerprints, too, such indisputable proof of you
You told me to call you
I want so much to call you
But I can’t remember your face