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Rachel (by G. Wade, and no, Rachel wasn't real...)
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There's rust on the roses
And they've given up their poses
And so she supposes
Maybe it's time to shed the past

Amd so we watched them burn
Too late to stop them
That awkward little notch in time 
That seemed to move so fast

(She said...)
"Wearing only my worn heels
We stood in a cornfield,
Two lovers in a downpour
Feeling things were going so fast!

"And he said 'I love you
And I'll never, ever shove you out.'
And all the usual fluff you hear
When you listen to the past!"

(chorus)
When Rachel gets this gleam in her eye
I know there were better times than this
With the balance of the blues and the beauty
The best thing in the world is watching
Rachel Reminisce

She loved to remember
That (one) night in November
The flight of an ember
That seemed to move so fast

And she watched it trace
A line from the fireplace
Straight at her frozen face
"But he seemed to move so fast!"

(chorus)
When Rachel gets this gleam in her eye
I know there were better times than this
When I'm caught betwen the blues and the beauty
The best thing in the world is watching
Rachel Reminisce

(bridge)
Rachel, I love
To watch you sing your blues
It all makes sense to me
When I'm standing there in front of you


(She said)
"Do you think that it's funny
How the memories get runny -
Washed out and smelling sunny,
Never as strong as in the past"

"But what was then will always be
Locked up in my memory,"
And then she smiled at me,
No longer in the past....                

(chorus)
When Rachel gets this gleam in her eye
I know there were better times than this
But with the balance of the blues and the beauty
The best thing in the world is watching
Rachel Reminisce
Rachel Reminisce
Rachel Reminisce

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