China Roses

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6th track off her 1995 album The Memory of Trees.

Nov. 20, 19951 viewer

China Roses Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Who can tell me if we have heaven
Who can say the way it should be
Moonlight holly, the Sappho Comet
Angel's tears below a tree

[Verse 2]
You talk of the break of morning
As you view the new aurora
Cloud in crimson, the Key of Heaven
One love carved in acajou

[Interlude]

[Verse 3]
One told me of China Roses
One a thousand nights and one night
Earth's last picture, the end of evening
Hue of indigo and blue

[Bridge]
A new moon leads me to
Woods of dreams and I follow
A new world waits for me;
My dream, my way

[Verse 4]
I know that if I have heaven
There is nothing to desire
Rain and river, a world of wonder
May be paradise to me

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6th track off her 1995 album The Memory of Trees.

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What did Enya say about "China Roses"?

Lyricist Roma Ryan wrote in the album’s promotional box:

Everyone has their own idea of heaven. What creates the beauty of the world is the love we have for it, connected to memories, wishes, desires. For each of us it is a different treasure we embrace – a changing sky, the crimson flower of the Keys of Heaven, a love token, the endless delight of fairy-tales, the ever-shifting pictures of our world that we find in the words of poets. For each one of us a different love becomes our own wood of dreams.
Denique non omnes eadem mirantur amantque: All men, in short, do not admire and love the same things.

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