I should have known why I loved
Driving through the cactus fields
Or wearing white leather gloves

Admiring the virgin
As she stands upon the moon
Waltzing behind a second line

Or harmonizing on gospel tunes

Abuelita underneath the trees

Of Costa Rica and her dark shored seas
They won't tell me about you
They don't want me to see

Abuelita you're just like me

I do not have your mind

Nor your body
Nor your circumstance in time
But I feel something rising

Up through me like a song
It's fragile and lovely
It's powerful and strong


Abuelita underneath the trees
Of Costa Rica and her dark shored seas

They won't tell me about you
They don't want me to see
Abuelita you're just like me


Oh grandmother
Did you have to say

Sometimes life
Well it just turns out that way
Waiting for a boy

Waiting for a train
Waiting on something to
Make you feel again


All of the girls
Lined up the stairs

Dressed like queens and princesses
With jewels in their hair
Wrapped up in old furs

You gave to us that night
We were the midnight fireworks
We blazed in a New Year sky


Abuelita underneath the trees
Of Costa Rica and her dark shored seas

They won't tell me about you
They don't want me to see
Abuelita you're just like me

I'm just like thee