Red Rose

Your father sat with the night's first drink

Your mother washed the dishes in the sink

You stood on the steps, wearing your best

One red rose on a new black dressWhen we walked under the powerlines

I dreamed about it a thousand times

You weren't like the rest

One red rose on a new black dress[Chorus]

One red rose on a new black dress

Crushing it between our chests

Tonight I'll wonder where you'll be

One dead rose is all I seeWe hid in the weeds and we hid in the grass

Listening to the cars on the highway pass

Then you put me to the test

One red rose on a new black dress[Chorus]Then you said we could never come back

And walked awax through the housing tract

Leaving me with what's left

One red rose from a new black dress[Chorus]