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Rebecca Lyrics
Get you, brushing your hair with the wind
Riding your bike up on Mulholland Drive
Oh, I got a five-minute rush from you in your faded blue jeans
How many years is it you've been alive?
Oh, I'll take a guess, Rebecca, could it be eighteen, nineteen or so?
Ooh, Rebecca, will I ever know?
No way, where would I fit in your life?
What would you do with a man without change
Too strange and too poor to be trusted, rusted a couple of times
Shaken a bit by the years on the road
And the women I've known? Rebecca, you'd have liked the name I gave to you
Ooh, Rebecca, if you only knew
Go home
To your father's friends
Straight sons
To your mother's friends
Sweet ones
To those families
Well-to-do and so well-established
And one day you might wake up to a shock, girl
What has it come to, this sensible life?
The wife of a fool? Rebecca, reading magazines in a chic salon
Ooh, Rebecca, where's Rebecca gone?
Riding your bike up on Mulholland Drive
Oh, I got a five-minute rush from you in your faded blue jeans
How many years is it you've been alive?
Oh, I'll take a guess, Rebecca, could it be eighteen, nineteen or so?
Ooh, Rebecca, will I ever know?
What would you do with a man without change
Too strange and too poor to be trusted, rusted a couple of times
Shaken a bit by the years on the road
And the women I've known? Rebecca, you'd have liked the name I gave to you
Ooh, Rebecca, if you only knew
To your father's friends
Straight sons
To your mother's friends
Sweet ones
To those families
Well-to-do and so well-established
And one day you might wake up to a shock, girl
The wife of a fool? Rebecca, reading magazines in a chic salon
Ooh, Rebecca, where's Rebecca gone?
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Could this be the purest example of an unrequited crush, ever? It lasted all of five minutes - only in his head - and he never knew her name. What\'s more, whoever it was may have even heard this song on the radio and had no idea it was about her!\n\nNot only was she too young for him at the time, but the trajectory of her life was going to be a mismatch even if he\'d had a time machine. This ephemeral moment would be the apex, and yet it still was enough to create this song.\n\nI think it is magnificent.\n\nBy the way, if "brushing your hair with the wind" seems just a bit odd, compare it to the second to last line of the song.