Here she comes like a Queen all through the wintertime
Skirts that billow long after she`s gone
Yes I could smell her smell on the pillow late at night
She`s a rose that blooms at night
And all the streets were wet and slicked with rain
Outside my green front door
Number 48 seemed dull by comparison
I went on down to the pub to stock up for the long night by myself
That`s one way out of this cold and lonely world
Yes I`ll be a rose that blooms tonight
The city`s quiet
The rioters have all gone home now
The fire brigades` sirens have been locked up for the night
There`s a blackout down on Brown Street
Where all the blues come home
And yes there`s a rose that blooms at night
Now Jim he packed up all his bags and said
"It`s time to get out of here"
But his wife and children they were crying out in the kitchen
Out in the back
Once a year he remembers that scene
But it seems so long ago now
He tries to remember but he can`t
You don`t look back
Memories - they`re like a rose that blooms at night
There`s a clock that never strikes
In the Town Hall`s towers of steel
There`s a road that`s never used
It`s never kissed with the hiss of wheel
In your mouth is a rusted brace
That you flash with your junkyard smile
Shine on like a rose at night
*written by Bob Geldof
*taken from the album "The Vegetarians of Love"
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