A soft summer evening, another time, another place
He brought her red roses on their very first date
She got carried away by the things that he said
Time would erase them but she would never forget
CHORUS 1:
And the roses heard it all
The rose in her hair, the rose in her hand
The roses in the paper on the wall
There's a story to tell if the roses could talk
Somewhere close to midnight, another time, another place
She lays in the darkness with tears on her face
While he talks in his sleep confessing his love
He calls out a name that she's never heard of
Chorus 2:
And the roses heard it all
The rose in the vase, that sat by their bed
The roses in the paper on the wall
There's a story to tell if the roses could talk
She never told him
She never let him see her cry
Only the roses know
What she kept down inside
The years took their toll and the angels took her away
Now there's family and friends at a cold winter's grave
He kneels down and whispers. 'You're the only love that I've known'
As he lays a rose on a cold marble stone
Chorus 3:
But the roses heard it all
The rose from her garden, the rose in her Bible
The roses in the paper on the wall
There's a story to tell if roses could talk
What a story they'd tell if roses could talk
(Roses roses au au ua)
Roses, I send you roses
With all the love their tender blossoming discloses
Just like my arms
They'll open wide
You'll see my heart inside
Please dear, embrace the roses
Until I come to you and when the long day closes
Our spark of love
Will burst to flame
And put the red red roses to shame
(Please dear, embrace the roses)
(Until I come to you and when the long day closes)
Our spark of love
Will burst to flame
And put the red red roses to shame
Should've left your roses at the door
They're sharper than before
And I don't want them no more
I should've left your roses at the door
They're sharper than before
And I don't need them no more
[Nas]
I had no time to give you guidance
Barely have any fuckin' time either
Hefner minded like, I think you're fine, but
See today I'm having one of them days where
I just don't want to be bothered,
but it seems like you can't understand that because it's your way or no way,
but check this out
And I'm really, really sick and tired of you steppin' into my little box
When I just don't want to be bothered okay, so check this out.
I've had my ways, and I've had my share of ups and downs.
I been in trouble, and I couldn't tell my ups from downs
I been your baby, and I don't know why you don't seem like that no more
welcome to the new definition of love.
It ain't all roses hey,
flowers imposing hey
said it ain't all candy hey
this love stuff is demanding hey
Sometimes I need a hug
See you just really wanna push all my buttons
Cause you Mr. Right & I'm Mrs. Wrong,
But right now today,
I'm going to be the one to sing this song
I'm going be Mrs. Right today it's my way, or the highway
With you there's just no getting around that I got to be bumping heads with you
What's up with that?
Listen see
I love my man, and I know my place I know my worth
I just can't stand
to see myself as I hurt
it's been along time, and I think that I can get a little more love from you
I know some of yall go through it too cause
Sometimes I just wish you would just put your arms around me
When I'm feeling so
very needy
But instead you just turn your back and say "suck it up"
oh you don't know how I feel right now
If you knew how I'm feeling on the inside you wouldn't say "suck it up"
Now what tha' cause
It' aint' all roses you know,
Everybody ask me how good it is?
It's great love is great
When you just a mess yourself, it ain't gone be all roses.
Cause you just want your time
You wanna be selfish
You know you don't want nobody messing with you
You just want to rip somebodies head off when they try to step to you with some "Oh! You need
some help, Oh! You need to figure it out" You figure it out
You go figure It out, you suck
I know it's past visitin' hours
But can I please give her these flowers?
The doctor don't wanna take procedures
He claimed her heart can't take the anesthesia
It'll send her body into a seizure
The little thing by the hospital bed, it'll stop beepin'
Hey chick, I'm at a loss for words
What do you say at this time?
Remember when I was nine?
Tell her everythin' gon' be fine?
But I'd be lyin', the family cryin'
They want her to live, and she tryin'
I'm arguin' like what kind of doctor can we fly in
You know the best medicine go to people that's paid
If Magic Johnson got a cure for Aids
And all the broke muthafuckers past away
You tellin' me if my grandma's in the NBA
Right now she'd be okay?
But since she was just a secretary
Worked for the church for thirty five years
Things supposed to stop right here
My grandfather tryin' to pull it together, he's strong
That's where I get my confidence from
I asked the nurse, "Did you do the research?"
She ask me, "Can you sign some T-shirts?"
Bitch, is you smokin' reefer?
You know see that we hurt, but still
I smile, the roses come to see me
And I can't wait for a sunny day
I'm seein' it through your eyes
Can't wait for the clouds to break
Like outside of the emergency room, room
You can feel my heart beat, beat, beat
If she gon' pull through, we gon' find out soon
But right now she's sleep, sleep, sleep
My mama say, they say, "She could pass away any day"
Hey chick, what these doctors know anyway?
Let me see the X-Rays, I ain't no expert, I'm just hurt
Cousin Kim took off for work
Plus my aunt Shirley, aunt Beverly
Aunt Claire and aunt Jean
So many aunties, we could have an auntie team
Feel like Amerie, "It's this one thing"
When they said that she made it
Did you see the eyes gleam?
I think we at a all time high
To get there we run, we fly, we drive
'Cause with my family we know where home is
So instead of sendin' flowers, we the roses
I smile, roses come to see me
And I can't wait for a sunny day
Seein' it through your eyes
Can't wait for the clouds to break
Oh, who will bring the sunshine?
Ooh, I smile, roses come to see me
And I can't wait for a sunny day
Seein' it through your eyes
Can't wait for the clouds to break
I smile, when roses come to see me[Incomprehensible]
'Cause roses brings the sunshine, say
Can't wait, I can't wait, aah
Can't wait, I can't wait, aah
Can't wait, I can't wait, no can't wait
Oh, for a sunny day, tell you mama can't wait
For the cloud to break, oh, no, no
Say, tellin' you the truth now
Sir, I can't wait, ah ah
Caroline! Caroline!
All the guys would say she's mighty fine
But mighty fine only got you somewhere half the time
And the other half either got you cursed out, or coming up short
Yeah, now dig this, even though
You'd need a golden calculator to divide
The time it took to look inside and realize that
Real guys go for real down to Mars girls, yeah!
I know you'd like to thank your shit don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like poo-oo-ooo
Yeah, roses really smell like poo-oo-ooo
Caroline! See she's the reason for the word "bitch"
I hope she's speeding on the way to the club
Trying to hurry up to get to some
Baller or singer or somebody like that
And try to put on her makeup in the mirror
And crash, crash, crash.. into a ditch! (Just Playing!)
She needs a golden calculator to divide
The time it took to look inside and realize that
Real guys go for real down to Mars girls, yeah!
Well she's got a hotty body, but her attitude is potty
When I met her at a party she was hardly acting naughty
I said "Would you call me?"
She said "Pardon me, are you ballin'?"
I said "Darling, you sound like a prostitute pausing"
Oh so you're one them freaks, get geeked at the sight of ATM receipts
But game been peeped, dropping names she's weak
Trickin' off this bitch is lost
Must take me for a geek a quick way to eat
A neat place sleep, a rent-a-car for a week, a trick for a treat
Now go on the raw sex, my AIDS test is flawless
Regardless, we don't want to get involved with no lawyers
And judges just to hold grudges in a courtroom
I wanna see ya support bra not support you!
Better come back down to Mars
Girl, quit chasin' cars
What happens when the dough get so low
Bitch, you ain't that fine
No way.. no way.. no way
Crazy bitch
Bitch, stupid ass bitch
Old punk ass bitch, old dumbass bitch
Buy more stock in roses
Millionaires will always woo
Don't be shocked if roses
Buy more stock in roses
Millionaires will always woo
Don't be shocked if roses
Make a millionaire of you
[Verse 1:]
I was already there
Standing there like a shadow
I was already there
Always ready to catch you
But you never know
How much it hurts
To know that your love
Won't be returned
I was already there
Knowing I'll never have you
[Chorus:]
Cause your love shocks like roses
Beautiful, but when I try to hold it
The thorns cut me every time
Don't know why I even try
Still I can't stop reaching for it
[Verse 2:]
I was already there
Loving you since the first day
I was already there
Still you never looked my way
You've never seen
How long I waited
And how much I dreamed
My life away
Wishing you could be here
But I know it's impossible
[Chorus:]
Cause your love shocks like roses
Beautiful, but when I try to hold it
The thorns cut me every time
Don't know why I even try
Still I can't stop reaching for it
[Bridge:]
While he gets your love everyday
I guess I'll never know it
Love roses
[Chorus:]
Cause your love shocks like roses
Beautiful, but when I try to hold it
Cause your love
Cause your love shocks like roses
Beautiful, but when I try to hold it
The thorns cut me every time
Don't know why I even try
Still I can't stop reaching for it
Roses
Roses
So beautiful
Yeah
But I'll never hold it
Yeah
Yeah
Thinking what to do
I'm crazy over you
Telling you the truth
I never let you down
I'm gonna get you a thousand roses
Let me take you home tonight
No one ever will be as close as - like me
You're gonna love my gentle kisses
Can't believe your touch
Is giving me so much
Think I've said enough
Life is no garden of roses
More like a thistle in time
Sailing past
Waiting for no one is time
Sailing fast
Waiting for no one this time
Now that you've killed me with your eyes
Why did you push me away
How will I make it without you
How will I go on my way
Everthing feels cold in the winter
Everthing feels cold
Everthing feels cold in the winter
Everthing feels cold
Life is a garden of roses
Roses just wither and die
Now that you've killed me with your eyes
Why did you push me away
How will I make it without you
How will I go on my way
Life is a garden of roses
She never had too much of money
Friendly strangers were all she knew
Nobody ever came to call but you
I would not say she isn't happy
though the eyes of a fool will make her blue
Nobody's ever seen the tears it's true
I guess nobody wanted to
We'll have a celebration
Ice cream and candy cakes
She's very young to go so far away
And then there'll be the papers
Black and white to say we're through
Nobody every loved me quite like you
I guess nobody wanted to
And there'll be roses in the springtime
still I guess there will
I wish her roses and song
And she'll be older
as years go by, and how they fly
Will she be lonely without me along?
She doesn't make friends easily
She's only known a few
The incidental stranger passing through
On Sundays and holidays
I'll take her far away
We never tried to save the love we knew
When I'm down, I just draw some roses
On a pretty piece of paper
With my recipe open
So halfway through, I feel so much better
I imagine happiness, and it runs right to me, such amazing beauty
You don't have to, cut up no roses
Please just leave them living
Got my pencil, got pretty paper
Please don't worry we're forgiven
[Chorus:]
I have found, just the perfect feelin
Finally cause I'm grateful
I can feel your spirit, comin closer on me
It is grand, just to be reminded
Reminded of the good things
Living in a new day, that no one can tear down
You don't have to, cut up no roses
Please just leave them living
Got my pencil, got pretty paper
Please don't worry we're forgiven
Yellow for friendship, red for love
Black for the universal stars above
Pink buds that I bought her on Valentine
She said it was forever then she changed her mind
I said a little prayer then I cleared my eyes
Cause the ?
Started off with a oget, natural poget
I ain't Picasso but that ain't important
Faith, smart dude never graduated high school
Stay tuned I'm a show you how my art move
Shape and dimension flow and extension
Symmetry shade, blowin out the frame
Sign off my name Dante when I'm finished
Put it to your memory for permanent exhibit
Love, hard work and it's worth every minute
Abstract is still life real life kinetic
[Chorus]
Got my pencil, got pretty paper
Please don't worry we're forgiven
You don't have to, cut up no roses
Please just leave them living
When I'm down, I just draw some roses
On a pretty piece of paper
With my recipe open
So almost through, I feel so much better
I imagine happiness, and it ran right to me, such amazing beauty
Got my pencil, got pretty paper
Please don't worry we're forgiven
You don't have to, cut up no roses
Please just leave them living
It’s been a miracle from what you’ve done
Please stay right by my side
Two can be one
The righteous way to go
Been a while but no
I’ll believe if I’m told so
You’re second to none
The question is what do I know about love
They ask me all the time do I know about love
Naturally I say yes but I don’t know shit
Cuz if I did I wouldn’t be in and out of relationships
Why? Do I get caught up in eye candy
A few days I pound she ain’t nowhere to be found
Everyday I pull so many dimes
I need to change my middle name to one line
Cuz I got so many one liners
I try to tell her I was ready to go all the way
But she couldn’t be patient with me
And now look at the end result
She ain’t here to get these roses I brought
But I’ma keep my self-esteem up
And keep looking for some real love
You know its true what they say
Love’s as precious as a rose
Will I ever find a rose I don’t know
It’s been a miracle from what you’ve done
Please stay right by my side
Two can be one
The righteous way to go
Been a while but no
I’ll believe if I’m told so
You’re second to none
I seen it coming way before we got here
You want me to put you over my whole career
My career was here first and its here to stay
Don’t trip girl you’re still a prior life and
Movie sets, rhyming, singing, and world tours
If I ain’t got a rose in my life then what’s it all for
You think I wanna be in private jets
Layed up in five star hotels by myself
Nope I want a rose to share with
The blessing of a backbone but I can’t stay alone
I come home to a home cooked meal
A manicure pedicure without seeing a bill
Am I describing you I don’t know
I don’t wanna spend the rest of my life living single
Patience is a virtue that’s the way that it goes
The question is will I find my rose…is that you
It’s been a miracle from what you’ve done
Please stay right by my side
Two can be one
The righteous way to go
Been a while but no
I’ll believe if I’m told so
You’re second to none
My moms taught me not to wear emotions on my sleeves
So when I leave please believe I’ma leave man
I’m not a charity case
But you might have to donate some love tips and show me the way
Cuz if I really knew it all
You think yall would have to talk to me about how to love and all
Naw I’d be on top of the world
At 27 with a wife, pregnant, and white picket fences and shit
It’s cool I’ma get there soon
Running around in the yard having fun with my little ones
Thinking to myself I had my share
There’s gonna be women everywhere
Not like the one I got here
Independent, fine as hell and got her own career
And if I ever needed her
She’ll be right there
Is that you…damn
I don’t know what else to say man
I feel like I got something
But at the same time I don’t
It’s lonely out here
You can have all the money in the world
That shit don’t matter
You know what I’m saying
When you broke you want money
And when you get money
You just want a girl to lay up with
And chill and relax and shit
make it plastic make it pay
use it up and throw away
make another just the same, more or less
burn our time down to size
send it up into the skies
hide the evidence with lies, what a mess
but we've just come from a meeting
and we're sure you'd like to know
there'll be deep blue skies and clear blue waters
everywhere you go
'cos everything's coming up roses
or so they tell you
coming up smelling of roses
or so they say
yes everything's coming up roses
or so they tell you
coming up smelling of roses
or so they say
in the name of energy
we give our problems to the sea
but they'll be back for you and me
in or haste, we forget
leaving our mistakes behind
out of sight is out of mind
our disposable mankind
what a waste
but we've talked to the experts
and they know a thing or two
they say it's all hunky dory
there's nothing for you to do
'cos everything's coming up roses
or so they tell you
coming up smelling of roses
or so they say
yes everything's coming up roses
or so they tell you
coming up smelling of roses
or so they say
but it's an awful price to pay
believing everything they say
here tomorrow gone today
so take me home to the red red skies and the
brown, brown grass and the black, black seas
and the broken glass and the dead, dead trees
but everything's coming up roses
or that's what they tell you
'cos everything's coming up roses
or so they tell you
coming up smelling of roses
or so they say
yes everything's coming up roses
or so they tell you
coming up smelling of roses
or so they say
You feed this disease which you shelter underneath the scars
And dream of better things rendered helpless by those wicked charms
But please don't believe when I say it's hard to breathe
Save me
Even as you break me
Every time you rape me
Leave me coming all undone
Praise me
Turn your back and hate me
Every time you waste me
Keep me underneath your thumb
You bleed on the sheets, whisper softly how you love the stars
Then plead on your knees, pledge your promises to do no harm
But please just let me be, I still find it hard to breathe
Save me
Even as you break me
Every time you rape me
Leave me coming all undone
Praise me
Turn your back and hate me
Every time you waste me
Keep me underneath your thumb
Save me
Even as you break me
Every time you rape me
Leave me coming all undone
Praise me
Turn your back and hate me
Every time you waste me
Keep me underneath your thumb
Save me
Don't turn your back and break me
Every time you rape me
Drained as drained can be
Life is gone from me
Drained if drained is free
If only I could breathe
Smelling dead roses
Take your mind with you
There's no room for two
I can't handle both
Handle both of you
Smelling dead roses
But I won't fall down
Rose said quote it's time to make a mess
Time will be soon mine in time I guess
She's painting on my back a beautiful flowerpot
And she treats me she treats me she treats me like her local god
Rose said quote it's time to make a mess
This one's yours and yours is self obsessed
She's painting on my back a green tom, the beefheart one
And she cuddles and she coos and she cuts the bullshit I confessed
She said:"Don't look my way
What can I possibly say
I've never seen you before today
I'm just the one that makes you think of the one
that makes you feel you're the one"
But thank you for the roses, for the roses
so thank you for the roses, for the roses
thank you for the roses, for the roses
thank you for the roses, for the roses
Rose said quote it's time to make a mess
remind me what it is that I do best
She's painting on my back some beautiful something sweet
And she treats me she treats me she beats me
Rose said quote my time has come at last
Ugly things through my mind they have passed
She's scratching on my back 'if this boy believes me'
She leaves me, deceives me and takes those flowers just to please me.....
Rose don't mind where she been
She been blind
She been mine
All this time
She been kind
She been mine
She said: "Thank you for the roses, for the roses" (just to please me)
Thank you for the roses, for the roses(just to please me)
Thank you for the roses, for the roses(just to please me)
Thank you for the roses, for the roses(just to please me)
What if I told you that your time was up
That as every second passes there's a moment gone
In 23 hours the sun was going to set forever
Would you hug a little tighter would you let go first
Would you focus on love and then forget the hurt
Live in the moment or wish your life away
How would you spend your last night on earth
Would you kiss your enemies
Say sorry first
Would you take enough time to say your last goodbyes
All the little battles that you never won
All the music and the opera never sung
Emotions that were silent all these years
You can't smell the roses when you're gone
You can't smell the roses
No it's not a rehearsal
You only got one life to make it right
You can't smell the roses when you're gone
So live every moment like it's the last night on earth
Because this is the last night on earth
What if I told you that I had regrets
I would trade in all my happiness for one last kiss
For a minute or two lying by you side
What if I chose the road nobody walked
If I honoured all my promises with empty talk
If I knew back then the things that I know now
I would tell you that I love you that we all get low
There are peaks and there are valleys but you've got to know
A second chance, it rarely comes around
You can't smell the roses when you're gone
You can't smell the roses
No it's not a rehearsal
You only got one life to make it right
You can't smell the roses when you're gone
So live every moment like it's the last night on earth
If I could have my time again
I would make sure you knew just how I felt
Because I went away for much too long
And the seasons changed without me
You can't smell the roses when you're gone
You can't smell the roses
No it's not a rehearsal
You only got one life to make it right
You can't smell the roses when you're gone
So live every moment like it's the last night on earth
As if it's the last night on earth
Roses I send you roses
With all the love their tender blossoming discloses
Just like my arms they'll open wide
You'll see my heart inside
Please dear embrace the roses
Until I come to you and when the long day closes
Our spark of love will burst to flame
And put the red red roses to shame
[ piano ]
I've been livin in a room without windows
Away from the sun, no oxygen
I couldn't tell if it was day or night
Away from the sun, growing nowhere fast
Rushing along on the pavement
Don't even look at the people's faces, going places
When an old man said stop
You nearly stepped on a flower
Growing through the cracks
And you didn't even notice
(Chorus:)
Wake up smell the roses
Life is happening and you don't know it
Wake up, take a moment
Grab it in your hands... and own it
I realise our love is like that flower
Been neglecting the thing most precious to me
You've been talking but I haven't been listening
The static in the noise been drowning you out
I so wanna be in the future
That I keep tripping
Over my own shoe laces
In these human races
And i'm brought back to now
And the volume goes down
There's peace in his words as loud as a shout sayin'
(Chorus)
He says
(Chorus)
Like your birthday I forgot
I was with you
But I was not... really there
Snap your fingers, that's your life
Not gonna let it pass my by no
When an old man said stop
You nearly stepped on a flower
Growing
Through the cracks
And you didn't even notice
Lord I'm so lonely
How will I ever find my way
I look out my window
Rain's falling down just like the tears on my face
It feels like this pain could last forever
Now that I know she's not comin back
So many things that I tried to say
It didn't matter she wouldn't stay
I smelled the roses the other day
When she walked away
She had her reasons
She never felt there was a need to explain
And she won't be knockin'
And she won't be callin on the phone
It feels like this pain could last forever
Now that I know she's not comin back
So many things that I tried to say
It didn't matter she wouldn't stay
I smelled the roses the other day
When she walked away
I smelled the roses the other day
When she walked away
So many things that I tried to say
It didn't matter she wouldn't stay
I smelled the roses the other day
When she walked away
So many things that I tried to say, darlin
It didn't matter she wouldn't stay no, no, no
I smelled the roses the other day
When she walked away
I woke up to smell them roses
Verse One
Caroline! Caroline!
All the guys would say she's mighty fine
But mighty fine only got you somewhere half the time
And the other half either got you cursed out, or coming
up short
Yeah, now dig this, even though (even though)
You'd need a golden calculator to divide (to divide)
The time it took to look inside and realize that
Real guys go for real down to Mars girls, yeah!
[Chorus- Repeat 2x]
I know you'd like to thank your shit don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like boo-boo
Yeah, roses really smell like boo-boo
[Verse Two]
Caroline! See she's the reason for the word "bitch"
(bitch)
I hope she's speeding on the way to the club
Trying to hurry up to get to some
Baller or singer or somebody like that
And try to put on her makeup in the mirror
And crash, crash, crash.. into a ditch! (Just Playing!)
She needs a golden calculator to divide (to divide)
The time it took to look inside and realize that
Real guys go for real down to Mars girls, yeah!
[Chorus- Repeat 2x]
I know you'd like to thank your shit don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like boo-boo
Yeah, roses really smell like boo-boo
[Verse Three]
Well she's got a hotty body, but her attitude is potty
When I met her at a party she was hardly acting naughty
I said "Would you call me?"
She said "Pardon me, are you ballin'?"
I said "Darling, you sound like a prostitute pursing"
Oh so you're one them freaks, get geeked at the sight
of ATM receipts
But game been peeped, dropping names she's weak
Trickin' off this bitch is lost
Must take me for a geek a quick way to eat
A neat place sleep, a rent-a-car for a week, a trick
for a treat
Now go on the raw sex, my AIDS test is flawless
Regardless, we don't want to get involved with no
lawyers
And judges just to hold grudges in a courtroom
I wanna see ya support bra not support you!
[Chorus- Repeat 4x]
I know you'd like to thank your shit don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like boo-boo
Yeah, roses really smell like boo-boo
[Repeat 2x]
Better come back down to Mars
Girl, quit chasin' cars
What happens when the dough get so low
Bitch, you ain't that fine
No way.. no way.. no way
[Repeat 2x]
Crazy bitch (repeated in background)
Bitch, stupid ass bitch
Old punk ass bitch, old dumbass bitch
I've walked the distance, I paid my dues and tried to have a go at what I thought I knew was real, held
no appeal
I've been to places, I've seen the tidings,
I bought a book of rules for every coin that I could steal
And so I came to gaze upon the stars, when they were yet unborn
And consequently, tear at my old scars, and the mask I had outworn
So when I'm crying alone
Yeah, when I'm cold as a dying stone
Grow me a garden of roses
Paint me the colors of sky and rain
Teach me to speak with their voices
Show me the way and I'll try again
I've heard the rumors, started fires, I sowed a sordid lot of plays for keeps for what I need, behold
the demons that I freed
I've tried my best at wearing the hard hat, but healing doesn't seem to happen when you hide away the
seed
And so I came across the medicine man, and he showed me what I'd forlorn
For if I'm stayed it happens by my own hand, and my own voice full of scorn
So when I'm crying alone
Yeah, when I'm cold as a dying stone
Grow me a garden of roses
Paint me the colors of sky and rain
Teach me to speak with their voices
Show me the way and I'll try again
Without you I'm nothing at all
And life has the face of a morbid game
With you nothing seems impossible
It all seems to fit the frame
So when I'm crying alone
Yeah, when I'm cold as a dying stone
Grow me a garden of roses
Paint me the colors of sky and rain
Teach me to speak with their voices
Am I the kind of brother who would leave you
Standing on this lonesome railroad track?
That's what I told you on the way to America
I swore by our God I'd be coming back
When the roses are blooming
You can call me home
And I will stay there forever
My flesh and bone
I wanted to see you that Christmas
But I got a letter I was being sent to war
I packed up the Bible that you gave me
And I prayed for protection beneath the watch of the Lord
When the roses are blooming
You can call me home
And I will stay there forever
My flesh and bone
There is a garden
I can see it from my bed
Reminds me of Ireland
Flowering yellow and red
I've been trying to write you but I keep stopping
All I've got to say is war is hell
I keep thinking about the soldiers coming at me
Not the ones that shot me but the ones that I brought down myself
And I don't think Jesus ever heard my prayer
If there's a heaven, I ain't going there
When the roses are blooming
You can call me home
And I will stay there forever
If the world is one big plan
Why must we lose our innocence
Why have we lost our paradise?
Paralysed. nothing to give
The chestnut vender in the rain
Haven't seen him since I moved away
Please tell me what I'm doing here
These strangers do not speak to me
All the things I tried to do
I never thought it was too late
So in this silence say a prayer
For the one who went away
Roses, are covering your face
And with my mind I'm calling out for you
But all that's left are
Roses, covering your face
And with my mind I'm calling out for you
But you cannot hear me
The rising spirit of the new
I can look through the windows of their minds
Why should we care about the means
Our last goal is to reach the end
All the things I tried to do
I never thought it was too late
So in this silence say a prayer
For the one who went away
Roses, are covering your face
And with my mind I'm calling out for
You but all that's left are
Roses, covering your face
And with my mind I'm calling out for you
But you cannot hear me
You said don't tell me we can take our time
So I hope that we will meet again
Sheltered in your faith you made me understand
lay me out in my sunday bestmake me handsome, make me
proud
you watched me grow up, watched me fall
stood by my bedside through it all
a man in white came with a book today
he said, 'son take my hand and let us pray'
my mother seems so afraid
sometimes i think she should of prayed...
...white roses lined the walls, every day here to remind,
the son who grew up to never be, black roses will now
line my bed, ive packed my things, i'm good to go, i just
thought i'd let you know, dont be scared...
...now on the same bed, my body lies and at my feet my
mother cries, the boy she loved with heart and soul, not
yet a man at eight years old, with my eyes shut night i
can finally see, the fine young man i would never be, and
now my mother who never prayed screams 'please dont take
my son away'...
...there were white roses when i was born, to celebrate a
first born son, now black roses left by my side to hold
forever the boy who died...
...dont be scared (im with you)
please dont cry (i'll never leave)
i'll come tonight to lay blue roses at your feet
If you want to be my best friend, then show it
If you want to live inside me, don't blow it
I don't want to stand in line
I don't wanna waste my time
I just wanna be in love
And I wanna be around when you come down
I just wanted you to know
The roses, the roses always grow
If you want to hear I love you, then say it
If you want to hear I need you, then prove it
I don't want to stand in line
I don't wanna waste my time
I just wanna be in love
And I wanna be around when you come down
I just wanted you to know
The roses, the roses always grow
Do you think it would last forever baby?
Do you think it would drag you on?
And all I wanna be around when you come down
I just wanted you to know
The roses, the roses always
And I just wanna be with you, not alone
I just wanted you to know
Turn around there's those eyes again.
Turn around fake indifference and I.
Watch their cold, dark silhouettes disappear.
A hundred bodies fill this room.
And all their faces overdone.
Pain is foreign, foreign to us.
I don't even know you.
You won't even know I'm gone.
Was it something I did wrong?
Roses, roses cold.
Roses, roses sold out.
Turn around reds and whites again.
I'd sell my kicks for one more low tar.
Fevers hand in hand with shoelace bracelets.
Why are some girls so naive?
He didn't unbutton your blouse to see.
A better view of your heart.
Oh yeah, can't blame you for trying.
Sing it soft.
Make it slow.
Apples parachute the boys back down.
Fill it up.
Overflow.
A new, improved modern way to feel.
I don't even know you.
You won't even know I'm gone.
I'm tired of trying to understand, so ignorant I'll remain.
I feel repressed, and I'm not impressed by the games you children play.
Some of you may bask in the sun and some of you may hide.
Whenever I hear your laughing voices, I just want to cry.
So many years of nothingness yet you seem so content.
You have to realize, it's all lies of deceit.
Call me a bastard- call me a afraid.
I'll just turn a deaf ear.
'Cause all is that for roses, it's been a wonderful year.
Now your party is over, and your host has died.
Kick your shoes off as you walk through the door,
It's time to come inside.
The world is crumbling, a drunkard stumbling.
birth is a label of end. end is a label of beginning.
beginning is a label of hope. hope is a label of
future.
future is a label of past. past is a label of history.
history is not a label of recall but of words.
words are a label of religion.
religion is a label of god. god is a label of power.
power is a label of submission. submission is a label
of sacrifice.
sacrifice is a label of an altar. an altar is a label
of three.
three is a label of numbers. numbers are a label of
eternity.
eternity is a label of limits of imagination.
time is a label of appearance. appearance is a label of
light.
shine is a label of knowledge. shine is a label of
information.
a line is a label of an extended bow. an arrow is a
label of a bow.
the bow is the power of an arrow. a label is a label of
a label.
life is a label of death. imagination is a label what a
blind person believes in.
a blind person is label of a painter. a painting is a
label of an optical event.
an event is a label of a moment. a moment is a label of
any time.
time is a label of beauty. beauty is a label of lies.
lies are a label of myth. myth is a label of survival.
survival is a label of hunger. hunger is a label of
love.
love is label silence. silence is a label of listening.
A FLOWER IS A LABEL OF A ROSE. A ROSE IS A LABEL OF
CULTURAL NATURE.
A ROSE IS AN ANTIROMANTICAL MIMESIS.
ROSES COME FROM WHERE WE WILL NEVER GO TO.
clouds are a label of invisible stars. stars are a
label of sun.
sky is a label of heaven. a mirror is a label of a
silent person.
She puts on her makeup
And roses in her hair
She smiles to the face in front of her
And tries to be sincere
Tomorrow seems so far away
When the moon shines silver light
Shines her silver light
That blazes through the night
Never to last. Never would there be
Another question to ask
Forgotten in a dying flame
She opens her heart up
In hope of better times
A sliver of a trust betrayed
Of old, forgotten rhymes
Her eyes, they cast their twisted spells
And thorns tear through her dreams
Petals falling hopelessly
With nothings as it seems
Never to last. Never would there be
Another question to ask
Forgotten in a dying flame
Questions never been asked
In the silence of the night
And even when she tries to talk
I forget, I forget myself
Escape in lonely stories
Too sad for her to tell
No one there to comfort her
She sighs, “It’s just as well…”
Never to last. Never would there be
Another question to ask
Forgotten in a dying flame
Never meant to last
Never would there be
Another question to ask
Ooh, I've been diggin' round in my own dirt again
And I don't smell the roses
And the train is speeding, boiler stoked
And I won't be home for a while
And I won't be home for a while
And I won't be home for a while
Grin - I won't be home for a while
Grin, grin, grin - I won't be home for a while
Ooh, if I were to love another of my kind
Would you mind?
If I did now, would you mind
Now these words are burning holes in my face
These are dangerous days for the calm mind
And the train is speeding, boiler stokes
And I won't be home for a while
And I won't be home for a while
And I won't be home for a while
Grin, grin, grin - I won't be home for a while
Grin, grin, grin - I won't be home for a while
From ear to ear
Toes to chin
North to South
And back again
From ear to ear
Toes to chin
North to South
And back again
Running from the savagely unkind
Grin, grin, grin - I won't be home for a while
So here we are, we've come this far
It?s never been so good
Nothing ever lasts forever
So maybe now we should
Try an' hold on to what we got
'Coz the only thing worth living for is love
So live a dream, forever it means
Treat money like a God
Coming clean for the part of the scenes
Now the devil's in your blood
When we?re running out of luck
Seems the only thing worth living for is love
So come on take my hand
We can go anywhere
Can you see what we've got?
'Coz the only thing worth living for is love
So come on take my hand
We can go anywhere
Can you see what we've got?
'Coz the only thing worth living for is love
An' when at last our time is up
You?ll see the only thing worth living for is love
So come on take my hand
We can go anywhere
Can you see what we've got?
'Coz the only thing worth living for is love
So come on take my hand
We can go anywhere
Can you see what we've got?
'Coz the only thing worth living for is love, is love
It?s the only thing worth living for
It?s the only thing worth living for
It?s the only thing worth living for
Roses
Blood red roses
Roses
Roses
In deep Ellum
Roses
Zombies
Won't you smell my
Roses
Sirens
Singing for my
Lightning spoke to the wind, "The devil's in me today, my friend
Do you see that old oak tree down yonder?
Blow like hell and bring down thunder
When your raging's through, I'll cut that oak in two"
The wind began to moan, the old oak tree began to groan
Thunder raged like hell's own daughter
The air was filled with fire and water
Laughing viciously, lightning struck that tree
The old oak tree began to shudder
But he held his ground like some old soldier
His ancient pride was burnt and shaken
But something deep inside did waken
He raised his limbs just like Moses
And blossomed roses
He blossomed roses
He blossomed roses
The sky is clear, the air is clean
The earth is brown, the forest green
The ancient oak he still is standing
With strength surpassing understanding
Like dreams a noble mind composes, he blossoms roses
Well I woke up early this morning to find out you had gone
I don’t know why you had to leave the brown eyes girl they’re gone
You told me you would be there for me, you promised you would never leave
All I know is I woke up to find you gone, to find you gone
Don’t be mad at me if I call you late at night
Don’t be mad at me if I ask your friends if you are alright
Don’t be mad at me if I cried all night ‘til 4
Don’t be mad if I leave roses on your door, roses on your door
From the moment I met you girl you know you stole my heart
Then you had to pack your things, my whole worlds falling apart
You told me I was too damn good said that you were misunderstood
Why don’t you explain that to my heart, to my broken heart
Don’t be mad at me if I call you late at night
Don’t be mad at me if I ask your friends if you are alright
Don’t be mad at me if I cried all night ‘til 4
Don’t be mad if I leave roses on your door, roses on your door
Don’t be mad at me if I call you late at night
Don’t be mad at me if I show up to your party drunk looking for a fight
Don’t be mad at me if your friends say I cried all night ‘til 4
it started off with the wrong message
we turned our eyes around and left
and then i came again with roses
in my eyes i'd learnt to lie some more
come on make me
come on take me
some things i hate to hear
but there's nothing that i fear
so i'm sorry
and if you and i can learn to fly
we'll find our way
when it's all gone we'll be just foliage
wrapped around and set aside
so say it right and not through roses
stolen from mistakes of everyone
come on make me
come on take me
some things i hate to hear
but there's nothing that i fear
so i'm sorry
and if you and i can learn to fly
we'll find our way
so fly
come on make me
come on take me
some things i hate to hear
but there's nothing that i fear
so i'm sorry
and if you and i can learn to fly
Blind me with distraction
Build a frontier ‘cross the void
All tomorrows been destroyed, in a breath
I moved out to the country
And I saw the scenery shake
As a summer parade meets it’s death
And God’s assassins rode back into town
And paved their way upon the cold ground
Roses help me to pretend
Blushing brides and cosmonauts
Don’t meet the bitter end
Give me grace oh Mother
I have rumbled quite a feast
Traced the footsteps of a Priest in the snow
But in my mind’s a picture of every face I’ve ever loved
Travel lightly suck their blood before they go
And God’s assassins rode back into town
And paved their way upon the cold ground
Roses help me to pretend
Blushing brides and cosmonauts
Don’t meet the bitter end
Verse 1 & 2:
You took the roses, dead and gone, I gave.
You took the sun and moon from which we made.
You'll be the one to kill me, in the end.
All the promises you swore were true.
You're full of lies in everything you do.
You'll be the one to ruin me.
Chorus:
Maybe after all, you will see,
As I start to cut away, and start to take me life!
Break:
As I start to cut away,
Caroline, (caroline) see Caroline all the guys would say shes mighty fine
(mighty fine) but mighty fine only got'chu somewhere half the time
and the other half either got'chu cause daughter comin up short,
yea now dig this now even though (even though) you need a golden
calculater to divide (to divide)the time it took to look inside
and realize that real guys go for real down to mars girls ha yea
ahhhh know you like to think your sh*t dont stank but lean
a lil bit closer see roses really smell like boo boo bo,
yeaa roses really smell like boo boo bo, ahhh know you like
to think your sh*t dont stank but lean a lil bit closer see
roses really smell like boo boo bo, yeaa roses really smell
like boo boo bo, Caroline (caroline) shes the reason for the word,
Bi*ch (bi*ch) i hope she speeding on her way to the
club try to hurry up and get to baller or a stanker or
somebody like that and try to put on her make up in
the mirror and crash crash craaash, into a ditch,
(just playing)she needs a golden calculater to divide
(to divide) the time it takes to look inside and realize
that real guys go for real down to mars girls yea ahhh
know you like to think your sh*t dont stank but lean a
lil bit closer see roses really smell like boo boo bo,
yeaa roses really smell like boo boo bo, ahhh know you
like to think your sh*t dont stank but lean a lil bit
closer see roses really smell like boo boo bo, yeaa roses
really smell like boo boo bo, well shes got a hottys body
but her attitude is potty when i met her at a party she was
hardly acting naughty i said shorty would you call me
she said part of you already bought me i said darling
you sound like a prostitute, pausing, oh so your one of
them tricks get deep at the sight of a atm recipe but
game been peep droping names G sweep trickin off this
bi*ch has lost whats takin for a heat quick was to eat
neat place to sleep rent a car for a week trick for a
treat no oh on the wall sex my aids test is flawless
regardless we dont wanna get involved with all them lawyers,
and judges just to hold grudges in the court room i wanna see
For six long years I've been thinking this thing through inside my head
wishing you were dead
and now the moments come around
I'll wait outside your home
as you arrive alone
when all is well I'll ring the bell and listen for you walking down
The look in your eyes
The fear and surprise
is wiped away I'm sad to say in a not-so-pretty way
As I drag you upstairs
you start to suffer I'll watch you suffer
Jennifer
I don't care if it kills me
I don't care if it kills me
Jennifer
I don't care if it kills me
I don't care if it kills me
It's your last night
your crying's buying anything but time
It's your last night
your crying's buying anything but time
My black leather gloves they fit so good
around your lying throat
your pretty when you choke
am I the first to tell you that?
As I drown you in the tub
I'll start to cut you up
I watch the blood fill up the tub
and stir it with a baseball bat
The look in my eyes
The fear and surprise
you thought you'd see
I disagree
for these bloodstains comfort me
And I'll leave you in that tub
and I'll watch you suffer
I'll watch you suffer
Jennifer
I don't care if it kills me
I don't care if it kills me
Jennifer
I don't care if it kills me
I don't care if it kills me
It's your last night
your crying's buying anything but time
It's your last night
your crying's buying anything but time
As your body decomposes I will fill the tub with Roses
so your neighbors won't smell the stench
It's your last night
your crying's buying anything but time
It's your last night
your crying's buying anything but time
This is me thinking it over
This is me up against the wall
This is me controlling my temper
and this is me loosing control
You're bleeding all over me
you're bleeding all over me
you're bleeding all over me.
She never had too much of money
Friendly strangers were all she knew
Nobody ever came to call but you
I would not say she isn't happy
though the eyes of a fool
will make her blue
Nobody's ever seen the tears
It's true
I guess nobody wanted to
We'll have a celebration
Ice cream and candy cakes
She's very young to go
so far away
And then there'll be the papers
in black and white
to say we're through
Nobody every loved me
quite like you
I guess nobody wanted to
And there'll be roses
in the springtime still
I guess there will
I wish her roses and song
And she'll be older
as years go by,
and how they fly
Will she be lonely
without me along?
She doesn't make friends easily
She's only known a few
The incidental stranger
passing through
On Sundays and holidays
I'll take her far away
We never tried to save
the love we knew
I breached the borders of your home
And everything looked as it should have done
Candle flame flickers and books unread
Round the crystal kept on an unmade bed
Flowers cut to shrivel and die
Like romance does and we both know why
With an artful flutter as if on cue
A gentle breeze brings the scent of you
I’m older than God and I live in your town
You shouldn’t raise up what you can’t put down
Those books that you pose with are more than antiques
When you search in the dark you should fear what you seek
Pallid in moonlight your shimmering skin
Is mine to caress you invited me in
The delicate architecture of your throat
Arcs sweetly away as my hands approach
Do you bleed diamonds
Do you bleed rubies
Do you bleed roses
A broken kiss and an aching sigh
Like a half heard end of a lullaby
A whispering chorus and a stifled moan
The jarring vibration of knife on bone
The stark composition of essence and parts
I gathered your limbs for a final dance
A silent waltz to your songs unsung
As the lifeblood seeps from your punctured lung
Do you bleed diamonds
Do you bleed rubies
Do you bleed roses (x2)
Oh you bleed diamonds
You bleed rubies
[Intro:]
These words are gonna hurt her... As much as it hurts me to say
But I can't continue this way no more
I gotta let this go
[Verse 1:]
Monday's here and his feelings still remain within
Tuesday appears and I look and rise and I say nothing
Wednesday now comes and I'm tryin hard to find the words
Thursday, friday, saturday rosen and I still can't hurt her
[Chorus:]
I can't believe these feelings I have arent there no more
It hurts me to break her heart and then... Walk out the door on her
This is why it feels... like I'm leaving a rose on a lonely sunday
I know it's gonna kill... her when I say what I have to say today
This is why it feels... like I'm leaving a rose on a lonely sunday
I know it's gonna kill... her when I say what I have to say today
[Verse 2:]
On thursday she tells me she can't live without me
And on friday followed by those three words that crushed me...
I love you baby
Saturday left and I think it's time she needs to know
Monday, tuesday, wednesday has come so I have to let her go
[Chorus:]
I can't believe these feelings I had arent there no more
It hurts me to break her heart and then... Walk out the door on her
This is why it feels... like I'm leaving a rose on a lonely sunday
I know it's gonna kill... her when I say what I have to say today
This is why it feels... like I'm leaving a rose on a lonely sunday
I know it's gonna kill... her when I say what I have to say today
But I gotta tell her how I feel inside
Even though I know I'm gonna make her cry
Cause I just can't keep livin
[Chorus:]
This is why it feels... like I'm leaving a rose on a lonely sunday
I know it's gonna kill... her when I say what I have to say today
This is why it feels... like I'm leaving a rose on a lonely sunday
I know it's gonna kill... her when I say what I have to say today
lately anything is possible
bit chances are getting on my nerves
though your almost always beautiful
i'm not sure that tonights what i deserve
It's alright if you stay here
It's alright if you go
Never been so good to you
It's alright if you stay here
who will win if you go
never been so lost
never gonna be found and i know
though i'm not the prepared for everything
i had no problems with your thorns
past the point of fixing anything
beneath your feet the welcome mat is worn
It's alright if you stay here
It's alright if you go
Never been so good to you
It's alright if you stay here
who will win if you go
never been so lost
never gonna be found and i know
and it all comes down to you
and it all comes down to you
and it all comes down to you
It's alright if you stay here
who will win if you go
Never been so good to you
It's alright if you stay here
i don't want you to go
never been so lost
never gonna be found and i know
I don't want you to go
I will listen in stereo
I'm here
I'm here
it was longtime ago
someone whispered in my ears
and Sevy says she knows me
I wont stay
I wont stay
and she might know me well
but not today, I hope
and this time I'll be brave
along the clouds
but it takes time to say
here you are
cause I can't keep the roses
I can't save the roses
the roses from before
cause I can't save the roses
I can't save the roses
the roses from before
I can't save the roses
the roses from before
how you grow
you grow on me each day
the past I know
but the past don't know the smell
of your neck
this is all you wanted so you better believe it
these things don't happen every day
so I can't keep the roses
no I can't keep the roses
the roses from before
so I can't save the roses
no I can't keep the roses
the roses from
I don't have to save the roses from before
oh, I'm pretty sure
I'm going to try the roses
I don't have to save the rose no
I can't keep the roses
no I can't keep the roses from before
Roses bloom on your skin so sweetly
Scented with your heart beating for me
Sighing, dying within this embrace
A thousand loves in one kiss taken away
Trembling with the thought of it
Drowning in roses
Roses fall from my lips for you
Taste the love we share eternally two
Sighing, dying within this embrace
Never have such things been shared or felt this way
Trembling with the thought of it
Drowning in roses
Trembling with the thought of it
Can you see the air change?
Can you see when a heart breaks?
I know that both do happen
But all I want is faith
Because I can feel this
And so much so I believe it
But still there is a struggle
And all I want is faith
And I believe I'll move the mountains
I think
Or maybe I'll drown in the sea
Keep holding on
All I got is holding on these roses
The thorns keep on digging
But my soul believes... please
So here I breathe
In oxygen I can't see
The oxygen that keeps me alive and wary
Oh, yes I do perceive
That like the birds find provision and sanctuary
You do this even more so for me
But all I want is faith
And I believe I'll move the mountains
I think
Or maybe I'll drown in the sea
Keep holding on
All I got is holding on these roses
The thorns keep on digging
But my soul believes
Places, seasons, millions of pieces
Together and all alone
Needing, repeating
Living and bleeding
Lost in the cohesion
Stagnant or will i run?
Give up or will i run
Into arms that are open?
Get rid of all the fear
I know that you are here
Keep holding on
All I got is holding on these roses
The thorns keep on digging
But my soul believes
I see!
And it's reminding me
That the thorns you wear
He draws the shades down to his room,
he tries to smile but it's no use
and he's wagering his life
He feels that he can never make it;
no one could know because he fakes it,
the end is waving in his palm
He tears the skin now (he's just a small boy)
he let's a cry out (in a small town)
he's turning pale now (With his hands up)
and he's trying to let go (and his face down)
Feeling helpless, he was so selfish
and all who love him may not see him smile again
His life is spilling to the floor;
someone is opening the door in time to save him
They'll see the pain behind his eyes,
and stitch the wounds but inside he seems to die
Hes trying, he's dying to know
why they love him so, he lost his faith,
he's gone astray and he's letting go
And he's trying, he's dying to know, why they love him so
Hell take another breath and smell the roses from his would be grave
He laid face down and kissed the ground,
with peace of mind he closed his eyes
And when it rained that day it washed his pain away.
And they'll send him flowers and he'll smile for hours
And he's fine now, and he thanks you all.
You saved him from the fall, his pride will rise,
depression will die and he'll be so full of life
It feels like roses in my head
A better smell, spikes through my back
A greater love, a better feeling and a better life
This is a jungle as they say
Do we need to live that anyway?
Remember we are all guests to each other in every time
I cant stand your violent pose
So let me give you another rose
A rose of love and laughter and all the good things you
cant find
All those noises everywhere
Never true and never fair
And all that I can do is to smile and wipe the tears away
So all you liers and all you thieves
You are invited, do as you please
You only steal your luck away
Every minute, each and every day
It feels like roses in my head
A better smell, a stitch in my back
the empty streets
a kiss in the back seat
as we're going faster and faster
the bittersweet taste of you and me
as we're head first into disaster
my words fade in the rain of bad excuses
my body aches when our lips meet again
we're fine as before when we're falling down
wash this situation off your hands
the blood follows the water down the drain
like a bullet through the barrel of a gun
or an idea of happiness
a perspective on all your actions
a comfort through sharp objects
you completely lost me
you say all is black
our life is forgotten for now
our senses restarting now
everything is roses
everything is roses
everything is roses
everything is fucking roses
my words fade in this picture perfect romance
we're supposed to be happy but we're not, no
we're fine as before when we're falling down
we're not even close (not even close)
tonight is the first time i've seen
you without that fake smile
those false lips
and i didn't even notice (no, i didn't even notice)
a perspective on all your actions
a comfort through sharp objects
you completely lost me
everything is roses
everything is roses
everything is roses
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