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"China Roses“ is the sixth track by Irish musician, songwriter and singer Enya from her fourth studio album, The Memory Of Trees. which was released on November 20, 1995 by WEA. In 1995, WEA released a very limited one-track European promo for the song as the first promotional single for the album and Enya. There is no corresponding commercial release and the cd remains one of the rarest Enya collectibles.

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Liner Notes[]

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.

Notes by Roma Ryan
The Memory Of Trees promotional box, 1995[1]

Lyrics[]

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

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

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

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

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

I see the sun…
I see the stars…

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