Cats Memory Lyrics

Memory Lyrics

At last, the time has come for Old Deuteronomy to make 

                  the Jellicle Choice and decide which one cat will be reborn


                  into a new Jellicle life. At that moment, Grizabella
reappears. 

                  Again she recalls her "Memory" of how things used to be. She


                  pleads to her brothers and sisters, yearning to come back to


                  them. This time, through a greater appreciation of tolerance,


                  the cats accept her back into the tribe.

 

                  GRIZABELLA: 

                  Daylight, see the dew on the sunflower 

                  And a rose that is fading 

                  Roses wither away 

                  Like the sunflower I yearn to turn my face to the dawn 

                  I am waiting for the day 

                    

                  SOLO: 

                  Now Old Deuteronomy, just before dawn 

                  Through a silence you feel you could cut with a knife 

                  Announces the cat who can now be reborn 

                  And come back to a different jellicle life 

                    

                  GRIZABELLA: 

                  Memory, turn your face to the moonlight 

                  Let your memory lead you 

                  Open up, enter in 

                  If you find there the meaning of what happiness is 

                  Then a new life will begin 

                    

                  Memory, all alone in the moonlight 

                  I can smile at the old days 

                  I was beautiful then 

                  I remember the time I knew what happiness was 

                  Let the memory live again 

                    

                  Burnt out ends of smokey days 

                  The stale cold smell of morning 

                  The streetlamp dies, another night is over 

                  Another day is dawning 

                    

                  Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise 

                  I must think of a new life