Willow Weep for Me
Melancholy Whispers: Willow's Lament in Lena Horne's Serenade
Lyrics
Yes,
Expressing affirmation
Willow weep for me
Addressing a willow tree, symbolizing sorrow
Willow weep for me
Repetition, emphasizing the plea to the willow
Bend your branches green along the stream that runs to sea
Instructing the willow to bend its green branches by a stream
Listen to my plea
Pleading for the willow to listen
Listen willow and weep for me
Reiterating the request for the willow to weep, indicating deep sorrow
Yes,
Affirmation continues
Gone my lovers dream
Expressing the loss of a lover's dream
Lovely summer dream
Describing a beautiful summer dream that is now gone
Gone and left me here to weep my tears into the stream
Feeling abandoned and weeping by a stream
Sad as I can be
Expressing deep sadness
Hear me willow and weep for me
Pleading with the willow to weep in sympathy
Oh,
Addressing the willow again
Whisper to the wind
Instructing the willow to whisper to the wind
and say that love's a sin
Declaring love as a sin
Leave my heart a-breaking, and making a moan
Describing a broken heart, moaning and aching
Murmur to the night to hide her starry light
Instructing the willow to murmur to the night
So none will find me sighing, crying all alone
Desiring to be hidden and alone
Oh,
Addressing the willow as a weeping tree
willow weep tree
Describing the willow's branches as bending in sympathy
Weeping sympathy
Instructing the willow to cover the speaker
Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me
Describing a moment when shadows fall
When the shadows fall,
Instructing the willow to weep during the shadows
bend over willow and weep for me
Empty line, creating a pause
Whisper
Instructing the wind to whisper again
to the wind and say that love is sin
Repeating love as a sin
Leave my heart a-breaking, and making a moan
Reiteration of heartbreak and moaning
Murmur to the night to hide her starry light
Reiterating the instruction for the willow to murmur to the night
So none will find me sighing and crying all alone
Expressing the desire to be hidden and alone
Yes,
Reiteration of addressing the willow
willow weep tree
Repetition of describing the willow as a weeping tree
Weeping sympathy
Repetition of instructing the willow to weep in sympathy
Bend your branches down along
Repetition of instructing the willow to bend its branches down
the ground and cover me
Repetition of instructing the willow to cover the speaker
When the shadows fall,
Repetition of describing a moment when shadows fall
bend over willow and
Repetition of instructing the willow to weep during the shadows
weep for me
Repetition of the plea for the willow to weep
Yes
Affirmation concludes
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