While listening to some of my favorite songs, I heard the following words:
"The
days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
Through a meadow
land toward a closing door
A door marked
'nevermore' that wasn't there before"
Sadly, we may be hearing the final epitaph for America being "sung" RIGHT NOW!!!
Main Entry: ep·i·taph
Pronunciation: 'e-p&-"taf
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English
epitaphe, from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle
French, from Medieval Latin
epitaphium, from Latin, funeral oration, from Greek
epitaphion, from epi-
+ taphos tomb, funeral
1 : an inscription
on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there
2 : a brief
statement commemorating or epitomizing
a deceased person or something past
- ep·i·taph·ial
/"e-p&-'ta-fE-&l/ adjective
- ep·i·taph·ic
/-'ta-fik/ adjective
Days Of Wine and Roses
Lyrics by: Johnny
Mercer
Music by: Henry ManciniArranged
By: Nelson Riddle
From the Album: Academy
Award Winners
From the Film: Days
of Wine and Roses
(1963)Label: Reprise
RecordsRecorded: January 28, 1964
The days of wine and roses
laugh and run away like a child at play
Through a meadow land toward
a closing door
A door marked "nevermore"
that wasn't there before
The lonely night discloses
just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced
me to
The days of wine and roses
and you
(The lonely night discloses)
just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced
me to
The days of wine and roses
and you