Roses - Imelda May

Who will throw me roses

At the final curtain call?

Who will clap and stamp and chant

In an empty music hall?

I’ve lived every word I write

And acted up under overlights

But when you go home

Arm in arm

I go back to an empty room

No afterglow

After the aftershow

The sacrifice

For art I suppose

It imitates life you see

Limitates privacy

I try to give all of me

But hate the cold reality that

Let’s me live out on the stage

My fantasy when what I really crave is

Not 'like' from some

But love from one

So who will throw me roses?