Rhododendron Lyrics

There we climbed

To pass the time

In the rain and sunshine

Inside the rhododendron

We fall and laugh

Get scrapes and gash

Burn our skin from a rash

Inside the rhododendron

We made a plan

To stay there and

Never to leave hand in hand

But we still got older

Let's stop to say goodbye

To the youth, I left behind

Oh, what a sad demise

Dissipating into our lives

Singing songs lazily

To birds all around me

While you sneak back after midnight

I would see you in the lane

You always talked rather tame

Told me you were doing alright

I saw you years later

Sitting on the train

You were doing your make up

In the window pane

I went over to say hi

But you barely recognized me

The world gave you tracks

For all to see

Told me you were going to work

What work you wouldn't say

I wish we never left the rhododendron that day

And I now hang around

Roaches there on the ground

Underneath the rhododendron