She doesn't know the man   Who tries to push her wheelchair in the sand   She just looks out to sea   He's talkin' endlessly      Oh, why won't he shut up?   I take my medicine and I crush the paper cup   Oh, maybe he's my son   And he's coming to set me free      She knows that she forgot   That there's a story and she can't recall the plot   Of course her family fought   Over the furniture      Oh, I don't know why they   Have taken all my favorite things away?   But one thing that's for sure   I don't know what they were      They say a stone is a marker   And that it has weight   They say it's solid   But it can deteriorate      The air is like a hand   Reminding her of all the things she's planned   Like air that thought is gone   Never to come again      We came out to the beach   To find the mind I've lost and cannot reach   I used to keep it here   It was much cleaner then      They say a rose is a flower   And that it is red   It blooms, it grows, it wilts   And then it is dead      They say a stone is a marker   And that it has weight   They say it's solid   But it can deteriorate      They say a rose is a flower   And that it is red   It blooms, it grows, it wilts   And then it is dead   Oh, Rose Kennedy