Lyrics

Thank You, Herman Mankiewicz
By Ted Horrell

Thank you Herman Manciewitcz
Someone told me you wrote the bit
In the film about the girl he saw
For one split second and that was all
But not a day goes by that he doesn’t recall her face or that dress she wore

And thank you Robert Penn Warren
For the paragraph in which you swore
Some moments never disappear
They in fact get brighter year after year
While others fade certain ones get clearer as the water she floated in

I don’t take many photographs
I don’t write down what I should
But some things they stick with you for the worse or for the good

Thank you both for what you said
For what I heard and what I read
And for saying what I could never say
About the pieces along the way
That fill empty moments day after day with the things that last forever

Thank you Sarah hair of brown
Heart of mine from my hometown
For the moments I will not forget
Like reading while you’re getting dressed
Those memories linger like that cigarette smoke from the room next door