Album: Whole Oates

Thank You for...

Thank you for walking
Thank you for spending one day,
with a stranger
Good morning. Hello! Choose a color, carnation
we'll walk along.
Down round the pond, up the hill bricks and steeples
it's not all gone... I recall
Thank you for walking
Thank you for spending one day,
with a stranger
Thank you for talking
and showing the way to a stranger
Wining and dining (what a September)
from bags by the river ( I should've worn a sweater)
a sun, sail, song (it's cooler up here)
We sat on a wall (oh my)
rest our feet (just a little longer)
touch our noses
then slow poke on... oh, I recall
One red carnation
the color for April
and apples
and wine
I suppose it was white... but I needed the rhyme.
As I packed up to leave oh, I noticed the fountain,
the statue's hand.
There in her bronzed, moistened, palm
red carnation
without you there... I recall