CRAPE MYRTLE — Pale Crimson, Pure White [Intro] Pale crimson pure white crape myrtle Dressed in two colors crape myrtle Blooming on as summer fades Blooming there beside you I still don't know the season when those flowers bloom [Verse 1] One day in November the earth was cold Back to back we worked there in the garden We smoothed the soil and set the stones Counting on our fingers we let four days pass I can still remember the scent of earth that day [Pre-Chorus] It lost the place where it was meant to bloom Only that tree went home with you And somehow I am still living in your heart [Chorus] Half of it pale crimson The other half pure white Upon a single trunk it wears two colors And now it's blooming What those flowers mean I still won't tell you [Verse 2] The following day I was no longer in that garden One page then another The calendar turned knowing nothing Winter passed and spring passed too And on those slender branches from that day the flowers bloom I picture them though I've never seen them Are they pale crimson? Are they pure white? When they sway inside the wind Somewhere I sway with them [Pre-Chorus] Things don't always go the way we wish I learned a little of that back then And yet this life I never could have imagined Somehow feels more precious now And still it blooms [Chorus] Half of it pale crimson The other half pure white There beside you it has taken root Blooming on for a hundred days I still have never seen it But what those flowers mean— Do you know? [Bridge] What ended in four evenings And what survived beyond those four days Only that tree whose path was changed Still knows the two of us Tell me— When did the flower know where it was meant to take root? [Final Chorus] Pale crimson pure white Dressed in two colors Bloom on without mourning summer Bloom proudly there beside you Until the day I come to see you Keep the meaning of those flowers Somewhere inside your heart And let it quietly bloom [Outro] I still haven't seen them And yet I know The meaning of your flowers “I believe in you.” So someday with my own eyes I will come and meet you.
