| Suzanne Vega – Rosemary Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| In Shakespears Hamlet, Ophelia, crazy at least in part because of Hamlets rejections, has gone mad. In a central scene (in Denmark we call it the madness scene), she rambles and hands out wild flowers to the central characters of the play and at some stage she says "Rosemary, that's for remembrance". I think the song is inspired by that sentence or scene. The first line goes "Do you remember when you walked with me" and the last one goes "All I ask is you remember me". The first verse is about the other women who makes passes on the man she (the narrator) wants. She doesn't say 'ran their fingers through your hair' but says in defiance or disgust/jealousy "Put their fingers in your hair". The rest of the song is a romantic picture of how it was being with him in the Carmen of the Martyrs (which I believe is in the Spanish village Alhambra) except for a detour to dreams that don't come true in the third verse. The beauty, I mean, what makes the story so ingenious and wonderful is that she ends up being one of the women from the beginning. She presses rosemary to his chest with the last line. Remember me. | |
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