Michael Oakley’s “Memory of You” is the bar’s hold on the singer, and the singer is alone, glass in hand. The jukebox is playing “In Your Eyes,” and the room the night has built around the singer is the song. A memory has come back on its own, and the singer is the one who has not been able to make it leave.
The singer is held by a jukebox, and the singer breaks chains and calls the other person’s bluff. “Kicks into motion” is the heart racing, and “Chasing illusion” is the same heart admitting it is chasing something that isn’t there. The memory is the song’s load, and the singer has called the memory an illusion while the song kicks it back to life. Oakley is a Scottish singer and producer now based in Canada, signed to NewRetroWave Records. The closing is the parenthetical chant, “a memory of you, a memory of you,” and the chant is the only line the singer has agreed to repeat.
