Forgetting And Remembering

Songs in which someone either forgets or remembers something, or not forgets or not remembers something, or a combination of both.

Forgetting / Not Remembering

• 9 Secret Steps - "You'll forget to rue the day / You went ahead and threw the thing away"
• Am I Awake? - "The coffee's cold / did I forget to drink it yet? / did I forget? / my clothes are wet / I don't remember drinking it"
• Asheville - "You don't remember, but I was once part of your orange"
• Ask Me Another - "I'm forgetting something about this evening"
• Auld Lang Syne - "For auld acquaintance be forgot / and never brought to mind / Should auld acquaintance be forgot ... Linnell: I forgot the second verse"
• Bad Jokes - "I can't remember the punch line"
• The Bells Are Ringing - "Forgetting their washing"
• Car Alarms - "Forget the in-between"
• Contrecoup - "And I know what to say, but forgot how to speak"
• D Is For Drums - Song is about how John Flansburgh can't remember what D is for.
• Damn Good Times - "When my friend got amnesia / she can't remember the show she saw / like the one with the guy with amnesia"
• Dimension Six Rock - "Forget the house"
• Dog - "She's the kind of dog / who knows the smell of victory / but can't remember what it's called"
• Don't I Have The Right? - "I tried to forget"
• Erase
• End Of The Rope - "I forget now, did I let go?"
• Everybody Knows It - "'Cause I already forgot" ... "I can't remember Steve now"
• Feign Amnesia
• Finished With Lies - "I'll fix it so you can't remember what was true"
• House Of Mayors - "You forget where you are"
• How Can I Sing Like A Girl? - "All that year of chorus taught me is out of style and long forgot"
• How Many Planets? - "Don't forget about Pluto"
• Hypnotist Of Ladies - "You won't remember why you liked him"
• I'll Sink Manhattan - "Burn your forget-me-nots"
• I Can't Remember The Dream
• I Left My Body - ...and I forgot where I left my body"
• I Made A Mess - "I don't know how I did"
• Jackie The Clipper - "After we're done here I'd prefer to forget the name of Jackie the Clipper"
• Let Me Tell You About My Operation - "Doctors removed your memory"
• Letterbox - "...each time you forgot to take out all the things you forgot to talk about..."
• Listless - "I can't remember where I put my brain-correcting pill"
• Meet James Ensor - "The world has forgotten"
• Memo To Human Resources - "I'm busy taking stock of all the things that I've forgot"
• Museum Of Idiots - "Where we met is where you may forget"
• Nanobots - "We very nearly forgot about you"
• Narrow Your Eyes - "Forgot how you said we'll split the side off the bed"
• Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon - "Forget what you're thinking"
• O, Do Not Forsake Me - "O some have forgotten the flower of speech"
• Pet Name - "You just forgot your one pet name for me"
• The Poisonousness - "Forgetting our nuclear past"
• Pop-A-Shot - "Baby forget the rest"
• Reminder - "It's a reminder / He won't remember"
• Reprehensible - "Tells me I won't remember a thing ... Forgetting everything"
• Rock Club - "I can't remember if we've played this club before"
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective - "Forget about it"
• Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "Things we'll forget to do to day otherwise"
• Stuff Is Way - Confusion, possibly dementia with lyrics like "Did you just what?", "Is what you yes?", "Who had you was?", and so on
• Till My Head Falls Off - "Have some respect for someone more forgetful than yourself"
• Turtle Songs Of North America - "often forgetting responsibilities and losing muscular control"
• Utah - "I forget you / I forget Utah"
• We Want A Rock - "Where was I? I forgot / The point that I was making"
• What Is Everyone Staring At? - "Did I forget to wash somewhere?"
• When The Lights Come On - "We won't remember each other"
• Why Does The Sun Really Shine? - "Forget what you've been told in the past"
• You're On Fire - "Hi, I forgot your name"

Remembering / Not Forgetting

• Apartment Four - "You don't know me but I remember when you / moved into flat number two"
• Bangs - "Just remember what I said / the money's under your hat"
• The Bloodboat - "A voyage these young sailors will always remember"
• Broke In Two - "You said something before you left / something I was not to forget"
• Can't Keep Johnny Down - "Spending days by myself remembering slights"
• Canajoharie - "Which reminded me how we wound up where we are now"
• Caroline, No - "I remember how you used to say you'd never change"
• Confusing The Mind - "Always remember, there are two diseases in any business"
• Happy Doesn't Have To Have An Ending - "Remember this before we part"
• Hovering Sombrero - "Remember when you take yourself for granted"
• I'll Be Haunting You - "When you look up you'll remember me and then I'll be haunting you"
• I'm Impressed - "I'm inspired by events to remember the exits in back of me"
• Love Is Eternity - "And remember love's a verb"
• Man, It's So Loud In Here - "I'll remember what it was"
• Name - "They won't forget about this"
• One Everything - "There's only one everything, remember these words"
• Pittsburgh - "I still have dreams about a place"
• Purple Toupee - "I remember the year I went to camp ... I remember the book depository"
• Sensurround - "I still remember the time"
• The Songs Of The 50 States - "I'll try not to forget all the words"
• Unforgotten
• Vitamins - "So you don't forget to take them on the proper day"
• We've Got A World That Swings - "Then I remember you're mine"

Combination

• I Can't Remember The Dream - "I can't remember the dream that I had last night" , "When I'm awake I note all that I see / And remember it with photographic accuracy"
• The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - The narrator can't recall what day of the week it is, but then remembers
• Prepare - "And make you forget everything that you currently know... Remember a second ago / Recall if you can how it used to be / Remember a second ago / It's hard to believe we were so naive / I can barely remember anything about a second ago"
• Sleepwalkers - "Perhaps when they awake they'll remember everything / they'll think it was a dream / it will be forgotten then"
• Super Cool - "That sweet day I forget it all / And stop searching for the trapdoor / I'll come back here to remind myself / Of when I lost it on the dance floor"
• Thunderbird - "You don't know how I tried to forget what it was like / I remember now, I remember now why they called it Thunderbird"
• Wait Actually Yeah No