Single Roses
©2004 Andrew Calhoun, recorded on Shadow of a Wing.
Up and down the streets of Venice
Streets of wonder, hope and menace
I wander lost and laughing, while away the hours
I saw a pretty woman there, and she was selling flowers
A fiddle player's daughter
Was walking on the water with her flowers
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Flowers in the bloom
Flowers in the bud
Free their wild perfume
For the old and new in love
She was in the morning singing
She was hawking single roses
To the old and new in love
So many odd years later, give and take a crooked mile
I saw a woman selling flowers, and I knew her by her smile
And I wondered if she knew me, or what it is she knows
Of love and song and beauty
That she still could smile so
"Beauty fades," she said to me
But I will beg to differ
With a wild rose held close to me
Walking on the water
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