Poisoned Rose

The poisoned rose
 That you gave to me
 It left me half alive, and
 Half in ecstasy
 But if just half your love
 Is all I can win
 Give me just a fraction
 And no more medicine
 The poisoned rose
 On a Valentine's card
 That you take straight to the heart, that
 You call my junkyard
 But if all I can do
 Is save pieces of you
 piece of your mind
 a piece of your heart
 Didn't tear me apart
 Like the poisoned rose
 That I received from you
 Now I don't know
 How we came to grow
 Into this very sad affair
 Every time we try to do the decent thing
 Somebody spikes the drinks
 And a single becomes a pair
 The poisoned rose
 you wear at your best
 That I keep pressed between the white sheets
 where you lie half undressed
 I threw away my shirt and shoes
 You looked and I dived in
 It's just you and me now darlin
 and you know why
 'Cause I threw away the gin
 I talk to the garbage man
 and took away your alibi
 All your worn-out clothes
 I even threw myself down on the ground but
 I couldn't bring myself
 to throw away
 The rose
 The poisoned rose
 The poisoned rose