"Roses Were Wild," A LOVE SONG

VERSE:

I loved you when roses were wild.

I loved you when I was a child.

In all my innocence and blissfulness,

You couldn’t have been more magnificent.

Like a field blooming in eternal spring,

You made my cheeks blush and my heart sing.

I loved you when roses were wild.

 

VERSE:                       

I loved you when roses were true.

I loved you when life wasn’t blue.

The garden grew with rain and time,

But I shed many tears when you were no longer mine.

Like a desert in the summer’s heat,

My love for you withered in bitter retreat. 

I loved you when roses were true.      

 

BRIDGE:                    

Oh, for the days of long ago.

How much I knew.

How much I could never know.

Oh, for the hours of simple faith.

Before many seeds I sowed were washed away.

 

VERSE:                       

I loved you when roses were sweet.

I loved you when red was indiscreet.

You weren’t the person I thought you were,   

But the roses still standing are beautiful and pure.

Now flowers bloom better than before,

And I couldn’t ask for anything more.

I loved you when roses were sweet.

 

BRIDGE:                    

Oh, for the days of long ago.

How much I knew.

How much I could never know.

Oh, for the hours of simple faith.

Before many seeds I sowed were washed away.

 

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I loved you when roses were wild.      

I loved you when I was a child.

I loved you when roses were wild.

I loved you when I was a child.

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