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"Cats" and all related things are the property of Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Really Useful Group, and related parties. Lyrics are taken from and based off "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and other poems by T.S. Eliot, with additions by Trevor Nunn and Richard Stilgoe. No copyright infringement is intended.

Memory (Act One) Sung by: Grizabella
Original London Cast	Original Broadway Cast	Original Australian Cast	Video
Midnight, not a sound from the pavement Has the moon lost her memory? She is smiling alone In the lamplight the withered leaves collect at my feet And the wind begins to moan	Silence, not a sound from the pavement Has the moon lost her memory? She is smiling alone In the lamplight the withered leaves collect at my feet And the wind begins to moan Every street lamp seems to beat a fatalistic warning Someone mutters and a street lamp gutters And soon it will be morning Memory - All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then I remember a time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again	Silence, not a sound from the pavement Has the moon lost her memory? She is smiling alone In the lamplight the withered leaves collect at my feet And the wind begins to moan Every street lamp seems to beat a fatalistic warning Someone mutters and a street lamp gutters And soon it will be morning Memory - All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again	Midnight, not a sound from the pavement Has the moon lost her memory? She is smiling alone In the lamplight the withered leaves collect at my feet And the wind begins to moan Every street lamp seems to beat a fatalistic warning Someone mutters and the street lamp gutters And soon it will be morning Memory - All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again
Notes Unlike most of the songs in Cats, the lyrics for this song are not taken from any of the poems in "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"; they are instead taken from and based off lines from T.S. Eliot's poem "Rhapsody On a Windy Night", and (to quote the London/Broadway librettos) "other poems of the Prufrock period" - "Preludes" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" seem to have been particular inspirations. This is the version of "Memory" that closes act one; lyrics for the "eleven o'clock number" version from act two can be found here.