Roses Fade

Luscious Jackson

With Precious scents of summer time

the lightning bugs said you were mine--

When I asked you to be kind

I found i had to wait in line--

You told me tales of love gone wrong

but you were paid to sing a long--

I knew the only lover's song

I knew the only lover's song--



Chorus:

I watched your roses fade away

the wings came off your back today--

And I saw all the truth behind

the pretty pictures in my mind--



You angel came a floating down

your halo it fell to the the ground--

The flies swarming into town

and starting circling round and round--

There was a body lyin' there

and whose it was I didn't care--

The prophet aly upon the stair(?)

the funeral was common fare--