Red Rose - The Blasters

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

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

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