Your Past It Will Follow You

You may travel to Tokyo or Kathmandu But wherever you go to your past follows you You may live in Paris or London or New York or Rome Your past it will follow you to your new home The past may be gone but the memories of it with you remain And in your flights of fancy you visit again The place where you lived as a girl or a boy Fond memories of what was are yours to enjoy Yes the memories live in you of what used to be In that sense you are not any different to me The mental images of the faces we knew young in our minds stay As if we had seen them only yesterday You may live in Sydney or Melbourne, Christchurch or Adelaide But the memories in you do refuse for to fade Of the faces and places you loved and you knew Before the lust of wander took you to places new.