Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
This song takes the form of a letter. The writer is concerned about Wild Rosemarie’s welfare during the night. Although he worries that she didn’t get home safely, he does not call her because he does not want to wake her up.
I thought about water
I thought about the roads late at night
I thought about drinking
I started to hope you were all right
And I thought about calling
But I was afraid you'd be asleep
I thought about God as a shepherd
Wandering the hills looking for lost sheep
And I thought about Wild Rosemarie
How that was who you used to be
How the wilderness sprang up around us
This dry desert heat
And I thought about water
I thought about honey
How I used to call you by its name
How you move so slow and sticky
Down my throat and how dry I became
I thought about the highways
All tangled up like a ball of snakes
And the poison backroads
And what a long time it would take to find you
Wild Rosemarie
All cracked up on I-93
The choice was your own
To strip flesh from the bone
And become really free
And I thought about water
How it drowned us after all
How we used to thirst for it
To burst forth from the sky and start to fall
And I just got scared
That you were still out wandering tonight
So here's this letter
And I hope you made it back all right
Love always
Wild Rosemarie was written by Ezra Furman.
Wild Rosemarie was produced by Doug Boehm.