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rosemary / forever disneyland
 

Do you remember how you walked with me
down the street into the square?
How the women selling rosemary
pressed the branches to your chest,
promised luck and all the rest,
and put their fingers in your hair?

I had met you just the day before,
like an accident of fate,
in the window there behind your door.
How I wanted to break in
to that room beneath your skin,
but all that would have to wait.

In the Carmen of the Martyrs,
with the statues in the courtyard
whose heads and hands were taken,
in the burden of the sun;
I had come to meet you
with a question in my footsteps,
I was going up the hillside
and the journey just begun.

My sister says she never dreams at night.
There are days when I know why;
those possibilities within our sight,
with no way of coming true,
some things just don't get through
into this world, although they try.
 
In the silence all around me
and the ruins which surround me
the memory is feeding
on the songs which we have sung.
We did it our own way
and I know it was a good one
but the journey now has ended
before it had begun.

Do you remember how you played with me
for our supper, against the fears?
And that day that I bought "Rosemary"
Daniel called me and he cried
and he said that you had died
and I cried your weight in tears.

Since then there hasn't passed a single day
on which I did not think of you.
Now that you have left and gone away,
you are with me even more
than you ever were before
but what am I supposed to do?

In the silence all around me
and the ruins which surround me
my need for you is growing
like the flowers on your grave.
I never cared to tell you
that you were a a good friend -
but I hope that where you are now
is forever Disneyland.

All I know of you
is in my memory.
All I ask is you
remember me.
 
 

white lyrics (c) 1998 by Suzanne Vega, WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)/Waifersongs, Ltd. (ASCAP)
the original track "Rosemary" appears on Tried and True - the best of Suzanne Vega (c) A&M