Double-decker number nine Let out a sound all wound up like a siren And I felt her shudder next to me Remembering the air-raids in the night The last fifty years just shot right by Some memories never die Like a curl of smoke, the notes Bounced off the Apollo theatre walls And all the words fell to the floor As two thousand mouths all sighed The fingers stick out, the cabs roll by Some memories never die Trade thoughts of guilt for shame A simple word's not that hard to say...? You act like an even plane Is to bleach everything in your sight (Does your mother have to wonder Where you were stolen in the night?) Your silence will haunt you where you lie Some memories never die