Twenty Yellow Roses

Twenty Yellow Rosesc2009 SaraKaminMusicShe had never been a simple girlAlways wanting more from this crazy worldWith shells around his neck and poems on his breathThought she’d met the one who’d love her ‘til the endTwenty yellow roses in his handsAnd a note that said “I’d love to be your man so I’ll do whatever I can to leave here with you and twenty yellow roses in your hands”They spent night after night camped out by the fire’s lightShe’d tell him of her plans – with him, she had nothing to hideThey’d fight like cats and dogs – and hardly got alongWhen she’d walk away, he’d make it alright with a song andTwenty yellow roses in his handsAnd a note that said “Should have been a better man so I’ll do whatever I can to leave here with you and twenty yellow roses in your hands”They tried their very best, but you know how it goesHe took a wagon train out west, where he went, nobody knowsShe moved on with her life, became a rich man’s wifeBut on her wedding day, she would get a big surpriseTwenty yellow roses in his handsAnd a note that said “I should have been the man so I’ll do whatever I can to leave here with you and twenty yellow roses in your hands”As the time crept on, she began to feel the stingTil death do us part wasn’t quite the right endingShe spent her days and nights trying to track him downEverywhere she went, she’d look for petals on the groundBridge:But time moves onAnd he was gonePassed alongHer heart could never heal from this; she would never get to kiss those lipsCould never have expected it, so she was at his door with just one wish and...Twenty yellow roses in her handsAnd a note that said: “I don’t know where you stand, but I can’t find another man who loves me for who I am”Twenty yellow roses in her hands