Evelina, wiser than ages of golden light.
Can you picture her old and grey?
No, she could not see it that way.
Declined to begin the day
With a tunnel vision.
Evelina, when you were younger,
Did you have your vision of Mary?
Did you see her in red and gold
Like Bernadette's patois soldier?
Did you see a reflection of you
Silhouetted in the sky?
But Evelina you clutch at thorns
As you try to smell the roses
For the roses are trapped forever in a white portrait
Like your lover is trapped forever in your mind.
credits
from Rebekah's Song,
released October 9, 1998
Written and performed by Caroline Kendall
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