Story Behind The Song
for Genevieve...
Song Description
Genevieve was beautiful, fun, loving, bombastic, exuberant...and most important of all, the Mother of my daughter Lilly.
| Song Length |
3:10 |
Genre |
Country - Rock, Country - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Heartbreaking, Depressing |
Subject |
Regret, Loneliness |
| Similar Artists |
Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1970 - 1979 |
| |
Lyrics
Roses are beautiful, you are a beautiful rose...red are your petals, you draw blood with your thorns...
Blue in my violet mind, waiting for a girl i could love...
Then you come up to me, Lord i'd been searching so long...been through so many...drunken i know i was wrong...
How was i to know you were waiting for the love in my eye...everybody told me but i was too jaded to try...
Wishing it was me that died, wanna have you by my side...
Wishing i could find a rhyme, wishing i could turn back time...
And it's been raining since the day that you went away...whiskey and pain dear and promises i wish i could say...
Now i'm standing over you, drop a rose and then i'm through...wanna have you by my side, wishing it was me that died...
Wishing i could lay with you, six feet of dirt i'm digging through...wishing i could find a rhyme, wishing i could turn back time...
Roses are beautiful, you are a beautiful rose...red are your petals, you draw blood with your thorns...
And it's been raining since the day that you went away...whiskey and pain dear and promises i wish i could say...
Wishing it was me that died, wanna have you by my side...