A Rose At Night lyrics

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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