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 dress
 When 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
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 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 see
 We 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
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 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
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