I love this song. I can't believe no one commented on it yet!
I think it's about a moment in time - cherishing those strange moments, when someone happened, or almost happened, and it's meaning can't be quite grasped, but something inside you tells you to remember it.
I think it's also demonstrating three different worlds - the loved one, who is aching to grow, to change, to go on, never ceasing to enjoy the moment, always thinking there is something beyond. His view of life is that so the speaker understands though they both might have fell inlove, he would rather move on, because he can't stay and explore the moment. He does not believe in things like "accident of fate", and though the woman wants to break to the room beneath his skin, she also knows it will have to wait - he's not ready. The place of their final meeting - she comes baring the question, but already knows the answer is 'no' - since his journey is just began (and there comes the metaphor of the statues carrying so much their heads and hands were taken off).
The second world is that of the sister who never dreams, because in her waking hours she lives in fantasies. She can do what the man can't - cherish the moment, enjoy the dream, but her way is unreal - her wishes and wills are so far from reality they can never come true.
The third world is of the speaker, who loves a man but knows he is too different then her, too rushing towards life - he can't enjoy the small moments or understand the meanings behind them, he can't look for the meaning in the smell of rosemary (the song's name represent a very small and meaningful moment for the speaker, which was not like that for the man she loved). In the end, coming to term with their difference, she simply asks him to remember her.
I love this song. I can't believe no one commented on it yet! I think it's about a moment in time - cherishing those strange moments, when someone happened, or almost happened, and it's meaning can't be quite grasped, but something inside you tells you to remember it. I think it's also demonstrating three different worlds - the loved one, who is aching to grow, to change, to go on, never ceasing to enjoy the moment, always thinking there is something beyond. His view of life is that so the speaker understands though they both might have fell inlove, he would rather move on, because he can't stay and explore the moment. He does not believe in things like "accident of fate", and though the woman wants to break to the room beneath his skin, she also knows it will have to wait - he's not ready. The place of their final meeting - she comes baring the question, but already knows the answer is 'no' - since his journey is just began (and there comes the metaphor of the statues carrying so much their heads and hands were taken off). The second world is that of the sister who never dreams, because in her waking hours she lives in fantasies. She can do what the man can't - cherish the moment, enjoy the dream, but her way is unreal - her wishes and wills are so far from reality they can never come true. The third world is of the speaker, who loves a man but knows he is too different then her, too rushing towards life - he can't enjoy the small moments or understand the meanings behind them, he can't look for the meaning in the smell of rosemary (the song's name represent a very small and meaningful moment for the speaker, which was not like that for the man she loved). In the end, coming to term with their difference, she simply asks him to remember her.