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Ramona is a 1884 United States historical novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. It is the story of a Scots-Native American orphan girl in Southern California, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. It has had more than 300 printings, been made into four film versions. It has been performed annually as an outdoor play since 1923.
The novel's influence on the culture and image of Southern California was considerable. Its sentimental portrayal of Mexican colonial life gave the region a unique cultural identity; as its publication coincided with the arrival of railroad lines to the region, countless tourists visited who wanted to see the locations in the novel.
In Southern California, shortly after the Mexican-American War, a Scots-Native American orphan girl, Ramona, is raised by Señora Gonzaga Moreno, the sister of Ramona's deceased foster mother. Señora Moreno has raised Ramona as part of the family, giving her every luxury, but only because Ramona's foster mother had requested it as her dying wish. Because of Ramona's Native American heritage, Moreno does not love her. That love is reserved for her only child, Felipe Moreno, whom she adores. Señora Moreno still considers herself a Mexican, although California has been taken over by the United States. She hates the Americans, who have cut up her huge rancho after disputing her claim to it.
You pushed me out to sea today
And hoped to watch me drown
All I had was my baggage
You thought it'd weigh me down
And as I drifted out
I floated out until the raft was sinking
I gasped for air
I coughed salt water
I couldn't help but drink in
I jumped ship; you couldn't see me.
You thought I'd breathed my last
I started swimming towards the shore
From which I had been cast
I struggled back until
You were sure that I would die
But I found a strength, a will, a hate
I couldn't pacify
So I made it back
I fought back, was almost to your shore
You had something in your hands for me
A braided crown of thorns
Then I turned around
I swam away, never to look back
I'm no more the fool
Who would die and know a salt sack
Let's dig a hole with a diamond shovel
We can take turns
Beyond the graves, the wells and Pompeiis
Excavators
We can bore
Through the floor
To explore
Towards the core
Lower and lower
What are we waiting for
Step through the teeth of the cave
They don't bite
Just then our eyes will adjust
To no light
As long as our canary sings
We'll be safe
So let's be on our way
We'll watch as moles dig secrets and holes
Furry experts
Dinosaur bones and rare, precious stones
Buried in earth
We were forged in
The explosion
Below ocean
Of emotion
Liquid molten
Magic potion
Let's not let up til we find
The heart of hearts
We'll know that we're close when we feel
Weightlessness start
Halfway between north and south
Float in the dark
If every tree, points to a star
If every tree, points to a star
I bet the tips are over -????
I set the snare for clover
I bet the tips are over -????
nothing is as special as this
nothing is as special as this
nothing is as special as this
It's frustrated love
It's frustrated love
If I'm dreaming you, and you're dreaming me
Then why do we choose, a different story
If I'm dreaming you, and you're dreaming me
Then why do we choose...
If I'm dreaming you, and you're dreaming me
Then why do we choose, a different story
If I'm dreaming you, and you're dreaming me
Then why.. why...
Probably forget, to remember it
We probably forget, to remember it
(probably forget) This fun, it feels like toil
(remember it) So right, let's call it spoil
(probably forget) This fun, it feels like toil
(remember it)
(probably forget, remember it) We'll start to let us
finish it
(probably forget, remember it) My heart will just to
notice it exist
We'll start to let us finish it,
My heart, my heart, my heart, my heart, my heart
If I'm dreaming you, and you're dreaming me
Then why do we choose, a different story
If I'm dreaming you, and you're dreaming me
Then why do we choose...
If I'm dreaming you, and you're dreaming me
Then why do we choose, a different story
If I'm dreaming you, and you're dreaming me
Then why...
I do not understand, whats on this move, if time is
right?
I do not understand, if heavens gone, when we're touch
I may want you, but you don't want me
So why would it make it better to leave
I may want you, but you don't want me
So why would it make it better to leave (If every tree)
I may want you, but you don't want me (points to a
star)
So why would it make it better to leave (If every tree)
I may want you, but you don't want me (points to a
star)
So why would it make it better to leave (If every tree)
as it flashed before my eyes
like rain crashing from skies
i am shaken by the sight
before i can find a pen
it is gone in the wind
broken string, runaway kite
please don't you give me false hope
you're free to go
i don't want you to cope
now is when i choose to fight
to make it right
or just to let it die
find me electricity
like the time that precedes words
there are colors but no rules
even the dead carry on
should i resurrect this hope?
would it find a home
or just leave me more alone?
now i struggle to believe
i'm capable
of waking up these dreams
find me electricity
she says "sleep, don't open up"
i've come this far
Before she met me she told herself to wait five years
After I met her, her teacher said best wait five years
I ask my neighbors, they said it's wise to wait five
years
I say fever
I tell the friend how I'm feeling and listening her sad
She fears that no man will ever desire her so back
How dare I feel this and do not but sit on my hands
I say fever
Oh my heart like a hot potato
Push the cart for an ovulata
This is just to code to decipher
Found the plowman chased the piper
That is up
That's all now
These are the one's who talk
Never neck
Leads her to kiss him
To close five years go by and we are no longer here
I blame myself to for not taking steps to draw her near
Try to decide what to do now based on love not fear
I say fever
I visited Russia and I started folding
until in one precious doll I had hoarded
all of Siberia; I said, "Love, here ya
go."
She said:
"Too little too late."
A trip to the Nile where I started swimming
until I finally found the spring brimming
with God's purest water from Abba the father
to heal her.
She said:
"Too little too late."
I sailed to Komodo, I fought with the dragons;
when it was over, their tails were wagging.
I taught them tricks, said "Sit, dragon, sit."
I brought her a pet.
She said:
"Too little too late."
I rode into China, I studied the Wall.
And I lapped it seven times, which caused it to fall.
It spilled out our fortune, I found exhortion,
"Well, here you go."
She said:
"Too little too late."
She said:
"Too little too late."
You pushed me out to sea today
And hoped to watch me drown
All I had was my baggage
You thought it'd weigh me down
And as I drifted out
I floated out until the raft was sinking
I gasped for air
I coughed salt water
I couldn't help but drink in
I jumped ship; you couldn't see me.
You thought I'd breathed my last
I started swimming towards the shore
From which I had been cast
I struggled back until
You were sure that I would die
But I found a strength, a will, a hate
I couldn't pacify
So I made it back
I fought back, was almost to your shore
You had something in your hands for me
A braided crown of thorns
Then I turned around
I swam away, never to look back
I'm no more the fool
Don't tell me you couldn't do it
I'm always right when I intuit
God is in the things you love
So don't you punch me with kid gloves
And if you really wanted this
You'd shake your life, you'd sell your kids
And if you really wanted this then you'd admit I'm
Always right (x4)
I can see your protestations
As merely manipulations
What you feel is not the issue
You're so polite I want to hit you
And hope that you'll retaliate
And prove my fears legitimate
I'd like to thank you, though it's trite,
For assuring me I'm
Always right (x4)
Worst offenders hide their crimes
As you've denied yours countless times
So don't plead for a lighter sentence
Be contrite and show repentance
And demonstrate your love for me
By handing me your diaries
I'll skim them til I'm justified
It says right here I'm
Always right (x4)
Say what you like but I'm not listening
My fangs are white and sharp and glistening
You seem like my favorite grade
I even earned this with straight As
As God made Adam in his image
You'll emulate me when I'm finished
I'll give you the gift of light
If you concede I'm