Melancholy Rose

First I saw you love in a silk black slip
In dark waters sinking like a ship
Trouble on your lips murder in your song
Song of a mean man lovers come and gone
Oh, melancholy rose, oh, melancholy rose
Come souls' midnight we'll both sail away
Leaving red sunsets to end our passion play
Bitter allows tingles on the tongue
Body and soul lovers come and gone
Oh, melancholy rose, oh, melancholy rose
Always running away black Sobraine hair
Turning cigarette ash grey
Sprawled across troubled beds
Hands outstretched reaching for the pills
In lonely rundown motels
Life, love, men, dust to dust disaster after disaster
Must be some dark kiss on your lips
promise of heaven or hell in your song
Tomorrow it'll all be gone, be gone
Oh, melancholy rose, oh, melancholy rose…
Oh, lovers come and gone, oh, love has come and gone
Oh, love has come and gone, oh, murder in your song