Saturday, April 03, 2004

I was watching "Rebel without a Cause" today after having this song stuck in my head for days. It also made me think of the old man at the cemetery behind my house. I used to go there a lot because my grandparents ashes are there. I missed them terribly after they died. They are in the mausoleum. The doors are locked sometimes, but the section of the wall where they are is right next to the window. So I would stand outside the window. Everytime I was there so was the old man, and even if he wasn't in sight his car was. Didn't matter the time of day, he was always there. If he saw me he would let me in and advise me that I should ask for a key. They had given him a key. I never asked why he was there. I guess I really didn't have to. I was there late one day and he left before I did. I walked over to his area. The most decorated part of that wall. She was beautiful and she had been there about 8 years.

I Wanna Be Loved Like That

Natalie Wood gave her heart to James Dean
The high school rebel and the teenage queen
Standin together in an angry world
One boy fightin for one girl

I wanna be loved like that, I wanna be loved like that
A promise you can't take back
If you're gonna love me
I wanna be loved like that

Daddy never gave Momma a diamond ring
But Momma never wanted for anything
But what he gave her it came from the heart
In a bond that was never torn apart

An old man kneeling all alone
Plants his flowers in a garden of stone
For seven years now she's been gone
And his devotion is still goin strong

I wanna be loved like that, I wanna be loved like that
A promise you can't take back
If you're gonna love me
I Wanna be loved like that

-Shenandoah

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