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Rosemary, meaning like the herb. And it’s basically a song about wishing to be remembered which is, I think, a rather fitting way to end a retrospective.
Suzanne Discusses Tried and True Suzanne Discusses Each Song on Tried and True september, 1998
I was there for a couple of weeks in May of 1995,...
[Verse 1]
Do you remember when 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
Put their fingers in your hair?
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 3]
My sister says she never dreams at night
There are days when I know why
Those possibilities within her sight
With no way of coming true
'Cause some things just don't get through
Into this world, although they try
[Chorus]
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
[Post-Chorus]
And all I know of you
Is in my memory
And all I ask is you
Remember me
Rosemary was written by Suzanne Vega.
Rosemary was produced by Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake.
Suzanne Vega released Rosemary on Mon Sep 28 1998.