Rebecca - Mackenzie Phillips

Rebecca moves across the world
She's a sirocco on the sand
She is the Nile that flows for ever
Cutting the wound across the land
She'll be your friend before you  know her
She’ll have your trust before its earned 
But like any nomad she will wonder
Breaking the hearts of all concerned 

History clouds what we remember 
The one you wanted her to be 
Mystery shrouds her like an island 
But it’s an island in a lonely sea
Oh, Rebecca
Oh, Rebecca

I was thirteen going on forty
Wasting my summer on the beach
Burned on the outside, raw in the middle
That’s Molly just too hard to reach
Rebecca moved in, she moved me
She was the best friend I’d ever had 
And then one day went away
Didn’t think I’d ever feel that bad 

Where did you go?
Why did you lie?
Why did you leave without saying goodbye?
How about the promise 
That you made me?
Was it really easy to trade me 
For another town
Another friend
Another beginning without any end

So many times I would’ve called you 
If I had your number in my hand
You were the one I would have turned to 
When things didn’t go the way I’d planed
I never got a chance to tell you 
Things didn’t go the way I’d planned 

History clouds what I remember
The one I wanted her to be 
Mystery shrouds her like an island 
Dose she still remember me?
My life is a turnstile
So many strangers passing through 
There've been more than I can number
But I still remember you
Oh, Rebecca
Oh, Rebecca