What I dream I had
Pressed in organdy
Clothed in crinoline of smoky Burgundy
Softer than the rain

I wandered empty streets
past the shop displays down
I heard cathedral bells
Tripping down the alley ways
As I walked on

And when you ran to me
Your cheeks flushed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
of juniper and lamplight
I held your hand

And when I awoke and felt you warm and near
I kissed your honey hair with my grateful tears
Oh I love you girl
Oh I love you


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For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her Lyrics as written by Paul Simon

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    It's about finding the woman you've always thought about and then one day you see her and think; "where have you been all this time?" It's about a love predestined to meet and find each other, it's about a love that knows no time or place, it's a place but a place deep down inside yourself. When it hits you it will always be there, it's the most potent and truest of all love. It only happens once in a lifetime and I think there is no more perfect name for this girl you were looking for all your life without even consciously knowing you were looking for her but then it happens, one in a billion and it hit you, paralyzes and you are complete. I imagine autumn and high wavy grass with endless fields devoid from human influence, pure nature and an innocent place where only the sun reigns and there that love is met like awakening from a daydream thinking about when you will find eachother yet you already have, she just came to wake you up and that is true love. Daydreaming and reminiscing about the one girl that will always be the one girl you love. And she is real, and she wakes you up and then you remember; these dreams I've had for so long about her were real too. It's about the girl you were destined to be with. It's finally finding her and the whole world disappears, just like I imagine the world disappearing around the writer of the song when he wrote it.

    Many people will not understand this nor experience it, but it takes heart and soul and being passionate in love, living for it to come to understand what it means.

    Those without passion and inability to love with an open heart will not experience this song from the place where it was written from.

    lovespropheton November 28, 2014   Link

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