Memories hang around, like cigar smoke in the air Memories hang around like indentations in carpet of a couch that isn't there They stain you like the pigment that paints the yellow lanes They stain you like that naughty thought that live inside your brains They restrain from thoughts, actions, and feelings you hold inside When they are of a lost one we like a piece of us has died Sometimes they warm us up and yet they bring us down They can often be the reason we cannot escape the ground They are always with us as the crows keep them all Memories are often the best things when we have no ability to call