I wrote this song in 2010 while I was with Late Model Humans but I never recorded it with the band. I swiped a little of Ira Gershwin‘s lyrics (in red below) from the song of the same title that he wrote with his brother George.
The world is filled with burning towers
Broken hearts and dying powers
And sometimes monotonous hours and hours and hours and hours
But even if the worst is true
They can’t take what I’ve had with you
The world is filled with second chances
Last goodbyes and awkward glances
That can lead to little things, little things
But even if the worst is true
They can’t take what I’ve had with you
They can’t take that
They can’t take that
They can’t take that away from me
The world is big, it’s easy to get lost
Or to get your signals crossed
But the only thing I was trying to say
Is even if the worst is true
They can’t take what I’ve had with you
They can’t take that
They can’t take that
They can’t take that away from me
The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no, they can’t take that away from me
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no, they can’t take that away from me
They can’t take that
They can’t take that
They can’t take that away from me
Words & Music by Mike Power 