Roses for the Dead

Album: Hours (2006)
Charted: 39
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  • Just to say we're sorry,
    For the black eyes and bleeding lips.
    When it's hard to forget
    How many lies we've told.

    Or how old we'd go,
    Before I said goodbye.
    So let's scrape our knees on the playground.

    It's not your fault,
    You feel okay.
    It's too late in the day.
    It's not your fault,
    You feel betrayed.
    You can't come out to play.

    I never listened to a word you never said.
    I never listened to a word you never said.

    Wasting the hours now,
    We're all suckers for tragedies.
    And start this over again,
    And you bring us to our knees.

    As sunrise comes,
    And the story will sell,
    There'll be a hundred papers,
    So we'll follow you up.

    It's not your fault,
    You feel okay.
    It's too late in the day.
    It's not your fault,
    You feel betrayed.
    You can't come out to play.

    I never listened to a word you never said.
    I never listened to a word you never said.

    So raise your hands up high,
    And let this rain pour on.
    So raise your hands up high,
    And wash us away.

    Like innocence and childbirth,
    You look just like your mother
    And you look just like your father.
    Forgive him our father,
    Your son is smiling,
    So lay roses around you. Writer/s: DARRAN ANTHONY SMITH, GARETH DAVIES, KRIS ROBERTS, MATTHEW DAVIES, RYAN RICHARDS
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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