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Anniversary

Fall and all attendant memories
Crowd the day with unrelated histories
Each year leaves its unresolving fantasies
Hang around each corner
Hang around each street.

Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitries
Carrying words as strangers exchange pleasantries
Do they intrude upon your private reveries
As they meet you on every corner
Meet you on each street.

Watch for daily braveries
Notice newfound courtesies
Finger sudden legacies...
As they wash down each corner
Clean up every street.

Mark the month and all its anniversaries
Put away the draft of all your eulegies
Clear the way for all your possibilities
They live upon each corner
Live on every street.
Make the time for all your future revelries

Lyrics : Suzanne Vega
Copyright : © 2002 Waifersongs Ltd.
Album : Retrospective

"Retrospective" - tracklist :

Notes:

"The last song I finished, "Anniversary", was written September 16, 2002, right after the anniversary of 9-11 in New York City. That particular day there was this strange wind that had come up all over New York and whirled around. There was this rumor going around that those were the souls of the people who had been lost in the World Trade Center. So all of that kind of combined to make this image, and that’s the last thing I wrote about."
Interview in ASCAP - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (http://www.ascap.com/poprock/memberprofiles/suzannevega.html)