How do you choose your words That's where I judge your darling Where the attention comes from Depends on how much I care And I do remember waking up with a headache In your parents' living room I remember those years They're hard not to remember All the things you wrote then I know them word by word But I don't remember playing your piano In your parents' living room Oh, so they say oh, shut up, will you? It's so strange how much in life that changes you And I do remember waking up with a headache In your parents' living room A smell and a sound A moving picture can take you back again And I, I don't know how to take it And you, you don't know how to spell it There's so much we need to say There's so much to understand On my way home in the car you held my hand And I do remember sleeping in your house On the floor with the dust in my eye Oh, so they say, oh, shut up, will you? There are so many secrets And I'm telling this one to you Turning back all the clocks and the memories From your parents' living room A smell and a sound A moving picture can take you back again And you, you just know how to spell it And I, I don't know how to take it