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Dear Heather Lyrics
Dear Heather
Please walk by me again
With a drink in your hand
And your legs all white
From the winter
Please walk by me again
With a drink in your hand
And your legs all white
From the winter
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softasfire On May 06, 2006
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maybe this should be in 3 lines - haiku style.
it's lovely written down like this - maybe better than the recording.
I do love the spelled out version though. very strange.
Sounds like a desperate longing for someone the author doesn't expect to see again, be it death or distance. When we lose someone close to us we tend to miss the small insignificant things we took for granted. Sounds like he would give anything just to see her again, no matter how mundane the circumstances.
I feel like he is speaking as someone of old age who longs for that vitality of youth represented by Heather with her youthful skin and carefree attitude. Just my little two cents worth.
We will never know for sure as Leonard is no longer with us, but my feeling is that the words are delivered as from an autistic admirer, Heather may be a relative because she has a drink in her hand. The delivery is in a precise but slow and the request to repeat the action was because it gave pleasure to the singer, a simple, childlike pleasure.