"Memory Palace" lyrics - BRUCE HORNSBY

Steam coming from a manhole
A tall blue stack
Like an apparition, it blurs
The full frontal attack
The gold in your band came from
An ancient blast
Need a fortress for protection
Against a long, slow, fading past

[Chorus:]
I'm building my memory palace
Item placement and long thought chains
Prime numbers, I'm running in sequence
Beyond the eyes, mnemonic aides
My memory palace
Do-do-do-do

Blank stare, but I swear I'm all there
Someone's home
Is that what I look like? Ha-ha
Well I guess that's so
I laugh but I worry 'bout, worry about
'Can I make it through?'
Make my time of solitude work
So that my recall is true

[Chorus:]
I'm building my memory palace
Item placement and long thought chains
Fibonacci numbers in sequence
Beyond the eyes, mnemonic aides
My memory palace
Do-do-do-do

[Outro:]
I'm trying to remember it all
Waking dreams, clean and shaped
Sequences, my fortress against slow fade
Memory palace