Bed Of Roses - Orkid

The morning we moved in this house you said Let's make a bed of roses So hand in hand we found that special place And I broke the ground I wiped that delta dirt from your face As you knelt there to sow them Oh, I'd give anything a mortal man could give If you could see them now Chorus: Through the kitchen window pane, I can see the roses The ones we planted that first spring are blooming Like they did when you were here Someone's always left behind When the door of this life closes So I sit alone and watch it rain on our bed of roses Some days I sit for hours at the time, Just staring at those roses They seem so young and full of life, But soon they'll face the winter chill I don't know how long I can survive, But one thing that I know is Come sping time the roses will return, But you never will Chorus: Through the kitchen window pane, Lord, I can see the roses The ones we planted that first spring are blooming Like they did when you were here Someone's always left behind When the door of this life closes So I sit alone and watch it rain on our bed of roses So I sit alone and watch it rain on our bed of roses...

She was called a scarlet woman by the people Who would go to church, but left me in the street With no parents of my own, I never had a home And an eighteen-year-old boy has got to eat She found me outside, one Sunday morning Begging money from a man I didn't know She took me in and wiped away my childhood A woman of the streets, this lady Rose This bed of Rose's that I lay on Where I was taught to be a man This bed of Rose's where I'm livin' Is the only kind of life I understand She was a handsome woman, just thirty-five Who was spoken to in town by very few She managed a late evening business Like most of the town wished they could do And I learned all the things that a man should know From a woman not approved of, I suppose But she died knowing that I really loved her Off life's bramble bush, I picked a rose This bed of Rose's that I lay on Where I was taught to be a man This bed of Rose's where I'm livin' Is the only kind of life I understand This bed of Rose's that I lay on Where I was taught to be a man This bed of Rose's where I'm livin' Is the only kind of life I understand