Roses of red
I used to give them to you
To you I'm led
all the day through
Know that I've bled
in the life that I knew
More often I'm dead
when I'm not with you
Roses are red
The roses I knew
Now are all dead
Now are all through
No more thoughts in my head
about the roses I knew
For I care not of roses
when I care about you
They can all die
and wither away
All of the flowers
die as they may
I can survive all that death
in the depths of a day
As long as you're here to stay
They thought I loved roses
but little they knew
They saw me pick millions
all the day through
Now they realize all I'm
loving is you
As all of roses
die as they do
I gave her a rose
and she gave it right back
The bluest of skies
now are all black
I gave her a rose
and she gave it right back
Now I don't know where she's at
Roses are red
The roses I knew
Everything's dead
with the absence of you
I picked every rose
till none of them grew
So everyone knows
the thing that I knew:
That flowers mean nothing
as they die as they do
Without a love and a heart to give 'em to